Re: [HACKERS] SQL/JSON in PostgreSQL

On 09/03/17 19:50, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Anecdotally, we just stored dates as strings and used a convention (key
> ends in "_at", I believe) to interpret them. The lack of support for
> dates in JSON is well-known, universally decried... and not a problem
> the PostgreSQL community can fix.
> 

The original complain was about JSON_VALUE extracting date but I don't
understand why there is problem with that, the SQL/JSON defines that
behavior. The RETURNING clause there is more or less just shorthand for
casting with some advanced options.

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