Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> writes:
> While rebasing the jsonb patch I found out that the current subscripting
> assignment implementation in transformAssignmentIndirection always
> coerce the value to be assigned to the type which subscripting result
> suppose to have (refrestype). For arrays it's fine, since those two
> indeed must be the same, but for jsonb (and for hstore I guess too) the
> result of subscripting is always jsonb (well, text type) and the
> assigned value could be of some other type. This leads to assigning
> everything converted to text.

So ... what's the problem with that?  Seems like what you should put
in and what you should get out should be the same type.

We can certainly reconsider the API for the parsing hook if there's
really a good reason for these to be different types, but it seems
like that would just be encouraging poor design.

                        regards, tom lane