Re: Question about jsonb and data structures

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:37:20AM -0700, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:37:20 -0700
> From: Emilie Laffray <emilie(dot)laffray(at)gmail(dot)com>
> To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Question about jsonb and data structures
>
> Hello Achilleas,
>
> I fail to see how it would solve my problem here. I already have a
> structure that is packed and nested. Your example is on a simple key/value
> pair structure and effectively you can address the ids very simply. In my
> case, I would need to return only a subset of the json data.
> Maybe I missed something from your example?

Would jsquery help?

https://github.com/postgrespro/jsquery

>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Achilleas Mantzios <
> achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > On 21/06/2017 01:01, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have been playing with Postgresql recently with a large table and I
> >> have started looking at reducing the number of rows in that table.
> >> One idea to reduce the actual size, I thought I would "compress" the data
> >> structure into a JSON object (more on that later).
> >> The table is pretty straightforward in itself
> >> other_id integer
> >> type_id integer
> >> label_id integer
> >> rank_id integer
> >> value real
> >>
> >> and the goal is to move to a data structure where we have
> >> other_id integer
> >> value jsonb
> >>
> >> There are many things in the table that is not optimal for legacy reasons
> >> and I can't just get rid of them.
> >>
> >> I looked at several json object data structure to see if I could make it
> >> work notably
> >> [{"type":1,"label":1,"rank":1,"value":.5},{"type":1,"label":
> >> 2,"rank":1,"value":.25}]
> >> {"1":{"1":{"rank":1,"value":.5},"2":{"rank":1,"value":.25}}}
> >>
> >> For better or worse, the first one would be the best for me as I can do a
> >> simple query like this using the GIN index built on top of value:
> >> SELECT *
> >> FROM mytable
> >> WHERE value @> '[{"type":1,"rank":1,"label":2}]'
> >>
> >> Effectively, I would want to extract the value corresponding to my
> >> condition using simple SQL aka not having to write a function extracting
> >> the json.
> >>
> >> The experiment on the second data structure shows that it is not as
> >> convenient as I may need to perform search on either type, label, rank and
> >> various combinations of the fields.
> >>
> >> Maybe you could try smth like :
> > test=# select * from lala;
> > id | txt
> > ----+------------
> > 1 | one
> > 2 | two
> > 3 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 4 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 5 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 6 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 7 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 8 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 9 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 10 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 11 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 12 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > 13 | ZZZbabaZZZ
> > (13 rows)
> >
> > select foo.* FROM (select id,to_jsonb(lala) as jzon from lala) as foo
> > where jzon @> '{"id":5}';
> >
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Emilie Laffray
> >>
> >
> >
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