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authorAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2015-06-07 20:46:00 -0400
committerAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2015-06-07 20:46:00 -0400
commitb81c7b4098f52e64df89efe1461ba00a54649a10 (patch)
tree924db92137a235ef088724a3a967799f13da38a8 /doc/src
parentd23a3a603b8eed5e8e34b193d43e9ca5f380ef3f (diff)
Desupport jsonb subscript deletion on objects
Supporting deletion of JSON pairs within jsonb objects using an array-style integer subscript allowed for surprising outcomes. This was mostly due to the implementation-defined ordering of pairs within objects for jsonb. It also seems desirable to make jsonb integer subscript deletion consistent with the 9.4 era general purpose integer subscripting operator for jsonb (although that operator returns NULL when an object is encountered, while we prefer here to throw an error). Peter Geoghegan, following discussion on -hackers.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 1fb9ae217f7..2d42b1e1743 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -10309,8 +10309,9 @@ table2-mapping
<row>
<entry><literal>-</literal></entry>
<entry><type>integer</type></entry>
- <entry>Delete the field or element with specified index (Negative
- integers count from the end)</entry>
+ <entry>Delete the array element with specified index (Negative
+ integers count from the end). Throws an error if top level
+ container is not an array.</entry>
<entry><literal>'["a", "b"]'::jsonb - 1 </literal></entry>
</row>
<row>