Merging Concatenating JSON(B) columns in query

Question

Using Postgres 9.4, I am looking for a way to merge two (or more) json or jsonb columns in a query. Consider the following table as an example:

Answer 1

FYI, if someone's using jsonb in >= 9.5 and they only care about top-level elements being merged without duplicate keys, then it's as easy as using the || operator:

select '{"a1": "b2"}'::jsonb || '{"f":{"g" : "h"}}'::jsonb;
      ?column?           
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 {"a1": "b2", "f": {"g": "h"}}
(1 row)