On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, at 08:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > For release 13+, I have given some more thought to what should be done. > I think the bar for altering the behaviour of a function should be > rather higher than we have in the present case, and the longer the > function has been sanctioned by time the higher the bar should be. > However, I think there is a case to be made for providing a non-strict > jsonb_set type function. To advance th4e discussion, attached is a POC > patch that does that. This can also be done as an extension, meaning > that users of back branches could deploy it immediately. I've tested > this against release 12, but I think it could go probably all the way > back to 9.5. The new function is named jsonb_ set_lax, but I'm open to > bikeshedding. > > Thank you Andrew, and I understand the difficulty in making changes to functions that already exist in production deployments. An additional function like this would be helpful to many. -- Mark Felder ports-secteam & portmgr alumni feld@xxxxxxxxxxx
