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authorAlexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>2021-05-13 16:10:21 +0300
committerAlexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>2021-05-13 16:18:03 +0300
commitff91d3a22b9a5ab9511f8ed8bffc895a991529f5 (patch)
tree57dcb44435e39ae4ac74c57c618af95b3c2ffcd9 /doc/src
parente5c071bc0f93c9c47821c876e36459580e08a68c (diff)
Improve documentation example for jsonpath like_regex operator
Make sample like_regex match string values of the root object instead of the whole document. The corrected example seems to represent a more relevant use case. Backpatch to 12, when jsonpath was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13440f8b-4c1f-5875-c8e3-f3f65606af2f%40xs4all.nl Author: Erik Rijkers Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alexander Korotkov Backpatch-through: 12
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 930eef9f36e..5e8a9fc5137 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -16941,9 +16941,10 @@ $[*] ? (@ like_regex "^[aeiou]" flag "i")
is a JSON path string literal, written according to the rules given in
<xref linkend="datatype-jsonpath"/>. This means in particular that any
backslashes you want to use in the regular expression must be doubled.
- For example, to match strings that contain only digits:
+ For example, to match string values of the root document that contain
+ only digits:
<programlisting>
-$ ? (@ like_regex "^\\d+$")
+$.* ? (@ like_regex "^\\d+$")
</programlisting>
</para>
</sect3>