Actually, it looks like I have to create all of the parent objects first
before it would work... Is that correct?
Deven
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Deven Phillips <deven.phill...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there a way to set a nested element for which the parent paths do not
> yet exist?
>
> For example, if I have a JSONB value called 'data':
>
> {
> "foo": "bar"
> }
>
> and run
>
> jsonb_set(data, {'boo', 'baz'}, 'newvalue')
>
> I would expect the output to be:
>
> {
> "foo": "bar",
> "boo": {
> "baz": "newvalue"
> }
> }
>
> But that does not appear to work..
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Deven
>
