Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

From: Filip Sedlák <filip(at)sedlakovi(dot)org>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Davin Shearer <scholarsmate(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO
Date: 2023-11-28 07:36:32
Message-ID: 3a98decf-3fe3-4b49-9b68-fda01338872c@sedlakovi.org
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This would be a very special case for COPY. It applies only to a single
column of JSON values. The original problem can be solved with psql
--tuples-only as David wrote earlier.

$ psql -tc 'select json_agg(row_to_json(t))
from (select * from public.tbl_json_test) t;'

[{"id":1,"t_test":"here's a \"string\""}]

Special-casing any encoding/escaping scheme leads to bugs and harder
parsing.

Just my 2c.

--
Filip Sedlák

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