On 09/21/2015 12:13 PM, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > I would expect some kind of error. We're trying to address a
> position in an array, and we're instead passing a key. If it
> completes successfully, the chances are it isn't what the user intended.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. So, basically, it should be like this, am
> I right?
>
> postgres=# SELECT jsonb_set(
> '{"name": "Joe", "vehicle_types": ["car", "van"]}'::jsonb,
> '{vehicle_types, nonsense}',
> '"motorcycle"', true);
> ERROR: path element at the position 2 is not an integer
That seems reasonable. For that matter, we should probably disallow NULL
path elements also, shouldn't we?
cheers
andrew