On 17.09.24 21:16, David E. Wheeler wrote:
On Sep 17, 2024, at 15:03, Florents Tselai <florents.tse...@gmail.com> wrote:

Fallback scenario: make this an extension, but in a first pass I didn’t find 
any convenient hooks.
One has to create a whole new scanner, grammar etc.

Yeah, it got me thinking about the RFC-9535 JSONPath "Function Extension" 
feature[1], which allows users to add functions. Would be cool to have a way to register 
jsonpath functions somehow, but I would imagine it’d need quite a bit of specification 
similar to RFC-9535. Wouldn’t surprise me to see something like that appear in a future 
version of the spec, with an interface something like CREATE OPERATOR.

Why can't we "just" call any suitable pg_proc-registered function from JSON path? The proposed patch routes the example '$.replace("hello","bye")' internally to the internal implementation of the SQL function replace(..., 'hello', 'bye'). Why can't we do this automatically for any function call in a JSON path expression?



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