På torsdag 06. januar 2022 kl. 14:13:40, skrev David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Thursday, January 6, 2022, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I think you misread my message. What I want is for the subscript-version:('{"key":"value"}'::jsonb)['key'] to return:┌──────────┐
│ ?column? │
├──────────┤
│ value │
└──────────┘
instead of┌─────────┐
│ jsonb │
├─────────┤
│ "value" │
└─────────A given syntax/operator can only return one thing so what you want is fundamentally not possible.
That's not very helpful....
Apparently I'm after a solution which either casts this to varchar or a function that takes JSONB as argument and outputs the first field-value as varchar.
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