||(jsonb,jsonb)

concatenate

Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.

Description

concatenate

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

Usage

||(jsonb,jsonb) → jsonb

English manual definition

Concatenates two jsonb values. Concatenating two arrays generates an array containing all the elements of each input. Concatenating two objects generates an object containing the union of their keys, taking the second object's value when there are duplicate keys. All other cases are treated by converting a non-array input into a single-element array, and then proceeding as for two arrays. Does not operate recursively: only the top-level array or object structure is merged.

'["a", "b"]'::jsonb || '["a", "d"]'::jsonb → ["a", "b", "a", "d"]

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

'[1, 2]'::jsonb || '3'::jsonb → [1, 2, 3]

'{"a": "b"}'::jsonb || '42'::jsonb → [{"a": "b"}, 42]

To append an array to another array as a single entry, wrap it in an additional layer of array, for example:

'[1, 2]'::jsonb || jsonb_build_array('[3, 4]'::jsonb) → [1, 2, [3, 4]]

Catalog interpretation

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

Related entries

jsonb data type

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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Related entries

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