Combine two JSON objects in PostgreSQL

Question

I have two JSON rows in a PostgreSQL 9.4 table:

      the_column      
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 {\"evens\": [2, 4, 6]}
 {\"odds\": [1, 3, 5]}

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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 '{"evens": [2, 4, 6]}'::jsonb || '{"odds": [1, 3, 5]}'::jsonb;
            ?column?                 
-----------------------------------------
{"odds": [1, 3, 5], "evens": [2, 4, 6]}
(1 row)