> With the hstore you can do hstore ? 'key' to check if the object contains > the key-- is there a similar function for json objects? Is this good enough?: => select ('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'a'; ?column? ---------- 1 => select ('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'b'; ?column? ---------- null => select ('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'c'; ?column? ---------- NULL => select (('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'a') IS NULL; ?column? ---------- f Time: 0.334 ms => select (('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'b') IS NULL; ?column? ---------- f => select (('{"a":1,"b":null}'::json) -> 'c') IS NULL; ?column? ---------- t If you want to treat {"b":null} and absence of "b" the same way you can use ->> instead of ->. This does seem worrisome though: => select (('{"a":1, "b":null}'::json) -> 'b')::text; text ------ null I think json_typeof solves that in 9.4, but I don't see anything in 9.3 other than ->>. Paul -- _________________________________ Pulchritudo splendor veritatis. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general