-(jsonb,text)

delete object field

Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.

Description

delete object field

Left operand: jsonb
Right operand: text
Result type: jsonb
Implementing function: jsonb_delete(jsonb,text)
Operator kind: Binary
Hash join candidate: no
Merge join candidate: no

Usage

-(jsonb,text) → jsonb

English manual definition

Deletes a key (and its value) from a JSON object, or matching string value(s) from a JSON array.

'{"a": "b", "c": "d"}'::jsonb - 'a' → {"c": "d"}

'["a", "b", "c", "b"]'::jsonb - 'b' → ["a", "c"]

Catalog interpretation

The catalog pg_operator stores information about operators. See CREATE OPERATOR and Section 36.14 for more information.

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Documentation and source

Source build

Version: 18.6
Build: https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
Source fingerprint: 555610c24d53e4316da5b7d3fc25c279d96856d5e0e23ee308c328c5fa881d9f

Compare versions

PostgreSQL 17 → 18: unchanged.

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Export JSON · Back to Operators · Recorded in PostgreSQL 10 through 20; the first sample is not necessarily its introduction.