Re: Extract elements from JSON array and return them as concatenated string

On 03/14/2018 10:02 AM, Alexander Farber wrote:
> Thank you, Ivan! I am trying to apply your suggestion to my table -
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Ivan E. Panchenko
> <i(dot)panchenko(at)postgrespro(dot)ru <mailto:i(dot)panchenko(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> SELECT  string_agg(x->>'letter','') FROM json_array_elements(
>
> '[{"col": 7, "row": 12, "value": 3, "letter": "A"}, {"col": 8,
> "row": 12, "value": 10, "letter": "B"}, {"col": 9, "row": 12,
> "value": 1, "letter": "C"}, {"col": 10, "row": 12, "value": 2,
> "letter": "D"}]'::json
>
> ) x;
>
>
> # select * from words_moves where gid=656 order by played desc limit 3;
>  mid  | action | gid | uid  |            played
> |
> tiles                                                 | score
> ------+--------+-----+------+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------
>  1353 | swap   | 656 |    7 | 2018-03-14 17:22:18.430082+01 |
> "ЙНРР"
> |     ¤
>  1352 | play   | 656 | 1199 | 2018-03-14 16:55:45.898379+01 | [{"col":
> 4, "row": 7, "value": 2, "letter": "С"}, {"col": 5, "row": 7, "value":
> 3, "letter": "У"}]   |    19
>  1351 | play   | 656 |    7 | 2018-03-14 16:38:48.132546+01 | [{"col":
> 9, "row": 11, "value": 5, "letter": "Ж"}, {"col": 9, "row": 13, "value":
> 2, "letter": "М"}] |    16
> (3 rows)
>
> by trying the following:
>
> #  select string_agg(x->>'letter', ' ') from (select
> jsonb_array_elements(tiles) from words_moves where gid=656 and
> action='play' order by played desc limit 5) x;
> ERROR:  42883: operator does not exist: record ->> unknown
> LINE 1: select string_agg(x->>'letter', ' ') from (select jsonb_arra...
>                            ^
> HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You
> might need to add explicit type casts.
> LOCATION:  op_error, parse_oper.c:728
>
> I am probably missing something obvious?

Do you still have non-arrays in the tile field?:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAADeyWgYKKaArJb6JK_xEtSO%3D7aeNaYqBu_ef-D5W7s8EFPfpQ%40mail.gmail.com

>
> Regards
> Alex
>
>

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