Re: new json funcs

On 01/27/2014 01:06 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan escribió:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand the need. This is the difference between
>> the _text variants and their parents. Why would you call
>> json_object_field when you want the dequoted text?
>
> Because I first need to know its type.  Sometimes it's an array, or an
> object, or a boolean, and for those I won't call the _text version
> afterwards but just use the original.

It would make more sense to extract them as JSON, check the type, and
convert.

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