merging many jsonb objects using aggregate functions in PostgreSQL?

Question

Is there a standard function in PostgreSQL (as of 12.x) to concatenate or merge many jsonb objects in a database column into a single jsonb object?

I know there is a the || operator since PostgreSQL 9.5 to merge two jsonb objects. But I need to merge many jsonb objects from a column. The linked documentation does not seem to have one unless I am missing something.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this post solved it:

https://blog.faraday.io/how-to-aggregate-jsonb-in-postgres/

The idea is to create an aggregate:

CREATE AGGREGATE jsonb_object_agg(jsonb) (
  SFUNC = 'jsonb_concat',
  STYPE = jsonb,
  INITCOND = '{}'
);

See the linked article for more details.