Postgres json select not ignoring quotes - postgresql

Question

I have the following table and setup
create table test (
id serial primary key,
name text not null,
meta json
);
insert into test (name, meta) values ('demo1', '{"name" : "Hello"}')
However, when I run this query, this is the result
select * from test;
id | name | meta
----+-------+--------------------
1 | demo1 | {"name" : "Hello"}
(1 row)
but
select * from test where meta->'name' = 'Hello';
ERROR: operator does not exist: json = unknown
LINE 1: select * from test where meta->'name' = 'Hello';
^
HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.
-
select * from test where cast(meta->'name' as text) = 'Hello';
id | name | meta
----+------+------
(0 rows)
and this works
select * from test where cast(meta->'name' as text) = '"Hello"';
id | name | meta
----+-------+--------------------
1 | demo1 | {"name" : "Hello"}
(1 row)
Can anyone tell me what the relevance of this quote is and why it's not doing a simple string search/comparison? Alternatively, does this have something to do with the casting?

Answer 1

That's because the -> gets a field not a value, so you need to add the cast to say to postgresql which data type you are after.
So to run your query like you want you need to use the ->> which gets the json element as text see it here on the docs JSON Functions and Operators
So your query should looks like:
select *
from test
where meta->>'name' = 'Hello';
See it working here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!15/bf866/8