Pushing or appending to JSON array in PostgreSQL 9.4

In pre-9.5 you can use json_array_elements, and array_to_json(array_agg()), like this.

SELECT array_to_json(array_agg(x))
FROM (
  SELECT jsonb_array_elements('[1,2,3]'::jsonb)
  UNION ALL SELECT '4'::jsonb
) AS t(x);

You can also write this using the ARRAY constructor like this..

SELECT array_to_json(ARRAY(
  SELECT jsonb_array_elements('[1,2,3]'::jsonb)
  UNION ALL SELECT '4'::jsonb
));