I have a column x with data type jsonb
and the value looks like:
[
[{"string":"whateverstring1"}],
[{"string":"whateverstring2"}]
]
How to return each element of the array?
Something like this:
"whateverstring1","whateverstring2"
demo:db<>fiddle
SELECT jsonb_array_elements(jsonb) -> 0 -> 'string'
FROM (
SELECT '[[{"string":"whateverstring1"}],[{"string":"whateverstring2"}]]'::jsonb
) s
jsonb_array_elements extract each element into one row
-> 0 gives the first element of the nested arrays which is {"string":"whateverstring1"}
-> 'string' gives the value of the elements
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Imported database tables :
id | JSON
-------------|---------
Signed 32int | Raw JSON
It is easier to search via the properties of the JSON data than by id of the row itself. Each piece of JSON data contains (for this demo):
json: {
displayProperties: {},
hash: "foo"
itemType: "bar"
}
When I select I would like to matching hash, and then filter those results by a matching itemType.
My query :
SELECT json_extract(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
FROM ItemDefinition, json_tree(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
WHERE json_tree.key = 'hash' AND json_tree.value IN ${hashList}
However this returns every item that has a matching hash value. From here, I would like to also filter by key: itemType and value: "19". So I tried :
SELECT json_extract(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
FROM ItemDefinition, json_tree(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
WHERE json_tree.key = 'hash' AND json_tree.value IN ${hashList}
AND WHERE json_tree.key = 'itemType' AND json_tree.value = 19
But this isn't syntactically correct, let alone output what I am looking for. Error:
SQLITE_ERROR: near "WHERE": syntax error
The title of the question turned out to not be accurate to what I was looking for. I miss-understood what json_tree actually did. json_tree actually builds a new object with values that are filled in by the database.
What I was actually looking for was to filter by a specific value in the json column, which can be achieved by json_extract. json_extract('{column}', $.{filterValue}) will pull the raw json object out of the json column
This is the query that is working for me now:
SELECT json_extract(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
FROM ItemDefinition, json_tree(ItemDefinition.json, '$')
WHERE json_tree.key = 'hash'
AND json_tree.value IN ${hashList}
AND json_extract(ItemDefinition.json, '$.itemType') = 19
This selects the json column from ItemDefinition
Creates a json_tree from the json column
Filters results by json tree key and value
Finally filters by the property itemType from the raw json column
I have a column of json objects (jsonb type) in Posgresql in this format:
[ {"qos1": [ {
"country_id" : [{"id":"IT",...}, {"id":"FR",...},...]
},...],...}
...]
So I am dealing with deep nested arrays of jsons.
I need to retrieve the row containing qos1 -> country_id -> id:"FR"
How to do this?
I tried different combinations such as:
SELECT *
FROM mytable
WHERE datacolumn -> 'qos1' -> 'country_id' -> 'id' = '"FR"'
with no luck.
You can use a JSON path expression:
select *
from the_table
where datacolumn ## '$.qos1[*].country_id[*].id == "FR"'
I have a database of resume data in json format which I am trying to transform.
One of the sections in each jsib is work_history, this is in the form of a json array i.e.
"work_experience":[
{
"job_title":"title",
"job_description":"description"
},
{
"job_title":"title",
"job_description":"description"
}
]
I am iterating over each resume (json file) and importing this data into a new table using dbt and postgreSQL with each element of the array being a new row with the associated metadata of the resume. Here is the code I used for this
select
json_array_elements(rjt.raw_json::json -> 'data' -> 'work_experience') as we,
json_array_elements(rjt.raw_json::json -> 'data' -> 'work_experience') -> 'job_title' as "name",
rjt.uuid as uuid
from raw_json_table rjt
The last thing that I need to do is add a column that lists the index that each job came from within its individual workexperience array i.e. if a job was the third element in the array it would have a 2 in the "source_location" column. How can I generate this index such that it starts at 0 for each new json file.
Move the function to the FROM clause (where set-returning functions should be used). Then you can use with ordinality which also returns a column that indicates the index inside the array
select w.experience as we,
w.experience ->> 'job_title' as "name",
w.experience ->> 'job_description' as "description",
w.idx as "index",
rjt.uuid as uuid
from raw_json_table rjt
left join json_array_elements(rjt.raw_json::json -> 'data' -> 'work_experience') with ordinality
as w(experience, idx) on true
The left join is necessary so that rows from raw_json_table that don't contain array elements are still included.
I have a JSONB column with values in following JSON structure
{
"a": "value1", "b": [{"b1": "value2", "b3": "value4"}, {"b1": "value5", "b3": "value6"}]
}
I need to select only b1 field in the result. So expected result would be
["value2", "value5"]
I can select complete array using query
select columnname->>'b' from tablename
step-by-step demo:db<>fiddle
SELECT
jsonb_agg(elements -> 'b1') -- 2
FROM mytable,
jsonb_array_elements(mydata -> 'b') as elements -- 1
a) get the JSON array from the b element (b) extract the array elements into one row each
a) get the b1 values from the array elements (b) reaggregate these values into a new JSON array
If you are using Postgres 12 or later, you an use a JSON path query:
select jsonb_path_query_array(the_column, '$.b[*].b1')
from the_table;
I have a table mytable and a JSONB column employees that contains data like this:
[ {
"name":"Raj",
"email":"raj#gmail.com",
"age":32
},
{
"name":"Mohan",
"email":"Mohan#yahoo.com",
"age":21
}
]
I would like to extract only the names and save them in a list format, so the resulting cell would look like this:
['Raj','Mohan']
I have tried
select l1.obj ->> 'name' names
from mytable t
cross join jsonb_array_elements(t.employees) as l1(obj)
but this only returns the name of the first array element.
How do I get the name of all array elements?
Thanks!
PostgreSQL 11.8
In Postgres 12, you can use jsonb_path_query_array():
select jsonb_path_query_array(employees, '$[*].name') as names
from mytable
In earlier versions you need to unnest then aggregate back:
select (select jsonb_agg(e -> 'name')
from jsonb_array_elements(employees) as t(e)) as names
from mytable