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commit    32d860285240df0ecbc2ce32ebaeeaefab4f836c
Author:   Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date:     Thu Sep 26 21:46:07 2013 +0000

    Fix erroneous statements about multiply specified JSON columns.
    
    The behaviour in json_populate_record() and json_populate_recordset()
    was changed during development but the docs were not.


 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 8a42deebe31..dafd34ebf84 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -10088,7 +10088,7 @@ table2-mapping
          Expands the object in <replaceable>from_json</replaceable> to a row whose columns match
          the record type defined by base. Conversion will be best
          effort; columns in base with no corresponding key in <replaceable>from_json</replaceable>
-         will be left null.  A column may only be specified once.
+         will be left null. If a column is specified more than once, the last value is used.
        </entry>
        <entry><literal>select * from json_populate_record(null::x, '{"a":1,"b":2}')</literal></entry>
        <entry>
@@ -10111,8 +10111,8 @@ table2-mapping
          Expands the outermost set of objects in <replaceable>from_json</replaceable> to a set
          whose columns match the record type defined by base.
          Conversion will be best effort; columns in base with no
-         corresponding key in <replaceable>from_json</replaceable> will be left null.  A column
-         may only be specified once.
+         corresponding key in <replaceable>from_json</replaceable> will be left null.
+         If a column is specified more than once, the last value is used.
        </entry>
        <entry><literal>select * from json_populate_recordset(null::x, '[{"a":1,"b":2},{"a":3,"b":4}]')</literal></entry>
        <entry>


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