Re: What's the point of json_extract_path_op etc?

On 06/25/2014 02:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Why do we have essentially duplicate pg_proc entries for json_extract_path
> and json_extract_path_op?  The latter is undocumented and seems only to be
> used as the infrastructure for the #> operator.  I see that only the
> former is marked variadic, but AFAIK the operator machinery couldn't care
> less about that, so it seems to me we could get rid of the
> json_extract_path_op entry and point the operator at json_extract_path.
>
> Likewise for json_extract_path_text_op, jsonb_extract_path_op, and
> jsonb_extract_path_text_op.
>
>             



ISTR trying that and running into problems, maybe with opr_sanity checks.

But if you can get rid of them cleanly then by all means do.

cheers

andrew