Re: [GENERAL] JSON objects merge using || operator

=?UTF-8?Q?Micka=C3=ABl_Le_Baillif?= <mickael.le.baillif@gmail.com> writes:
> Do you have any reason for giving the same precedence on those operators ?
> A small survey among my colleagues and friends tends to believe that our
> human brain implicitly gives a greater priority to the '->' operator.

PG's operator precedence rules were set long before the JSON types ever
existed.  Even if we wanted to treat -> specially, we couldn't for fear
of breaking existing queries that used custom operators named that.

            regards, tom lane