How can I update an existing table with an array of objects? - sql

Question

When the user clicks on another user, a new item is created in the chats table, with a sender and receiver id but an empty chat message.
when the user sends a message, depending on who he sends it to, the item in the chat table will be updated with the sent message.
the message object looks like this [{message: "abc", sender: "person",
reciever:"person2"}] // there will be multiple object inside the arr
at the moment this is how I my table look:
chats (sender_id, reciever_id, messages jsonb[])
and this is the query I'm sending
UPDATE chats SET
messages = '[
{ message: 'hi', sender: 'test', reciever: null },
{ message: 'hello', sender: 'test', reciever: null }
]' WHERE
sender_id = 47 AND
reciever_id = 43
This is causing errors, and not updating the table. The error doesn't tell me much, but I think it's due to the fact that my object is not in json format(strings on the keys)
so what data type can I use, to allow me to update my messages column using MY format.

Answer 1

You must use double quotes for json.
your data also doesn't need an jsonb array, so i removed it
CREATE TABLE chats (sender_id int, reciever_id int, messages jsonb)
CREATE TABLE
INSERT INTO chats VALUES (47,43, NULL)
INSERT 0 1
UPDATE chats SET
messages = '[
{ "message": "hi", "sender": "test", "reciever": null },
{ "message": "hello", "sender": "test", "reciever": null }
]' WHERE
sender_id = 47 AND
reciever_id = 43
UPDATE 1
SELECT * FROM chats
sender_id
reciever_id
messages
47
43
[{"sender": "test", "message": "hi", "reciever": null}, {"sender": "test", "message": "hello", "reciever": null}]
SELECT 1
fiddle