On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Realistically, as much as we might try to fool ourselves into > believing otherwise, operators are not self-documenting, except for > the ones you knew by the fourth grade. People will have to read the > documentation no matter what we do here. If the documentation is good > enough, let's improve it. But let's not fool ourselves into believing > that calling the operator || or + or (in the spirit of this > discussion) ?!?!?!? will make it clearer. If we wanted to make it > clearer, we'd have made it a function instead of an operator.
jsonb is based on hstore. I don't want the idiomatic way to do updates with hstore not work in a similar fashion with jsonb. Granted, if you're not reading the documentation you may well have other problems, but I think we should do our best to avoid confusion. I was quite surprised when I saw that the concatenate operator isn't really useful for updates. If it wasn't for hstore, then I might agree with Andrew, or at least not care too much one way or the other. Besides, my opinion on which operator is at least closer to being self-documenting is shared by Ryan. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
