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JSONPath is also supported by Postgres!

Helpful when querying JSON API responses that are parsed and persisted for normal, relational uses. Sometimes you want to query data that you weren’t initially parsing or that matches a fix to reprocess.





speaking of classic databases: can anyone explain to me, a dummy, why any syntax like this or even GraphQL is preferable to "select a.name, a.age from friends a where a.city = 'New York' order by a.age asc"?



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