Make sample like_regex match string values of the root object instead of the
whole document. The corrected example seems to represent a more relevant
use case.
Backpatch to 12, when jsonpath was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
13440f8b-4c1f-5875-c8e3-
f3f65606af2f%40xs4all.nl
Author: Erik Rijkers
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 12
is a JSON path string literal, written according to the rules given in
<xref linkend="datatype-jsonpath"/>. This means in particular that any
backslashes you want to use in the regular expression must be doubled.
- For example, to match strings that contain only digits:
+ For example, to match string values of the root document that contain
+ only digits:
<programlisting>
-$ ? (@ like_regex "^\\d+$")
+$.* ? (@ like_regex "^\\d+$")
</programlisting>
</para>
</sect3>