Re: Getting json-value as varchar

Hi

čt 6. 1. 2022 v 14:33 odesílatel Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
napsal:

> På torsdag 06. januar 2022 kl. 14:29:12, skrev David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
> [..]
> The fact is that the ‘ - - > ‘ operator gives you the needed output.
>
> David J.
>
>
> Yeah, I think that's the correct answer for this use-case.
>

It is true that some other casting function is missing. I am not sure if
this is part of ANSI/SQL json support.

Now, you can use helper function

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.to_text(jsonb)
RETURNS text
LANGUAGE sql
AS $function$
select jsonb_array_element_text($1, 0)
$function$

postgres=# select to_text((jsonb '{"a":"Ahoj"}')['a']);
┌─────────┐
│ to_text │
╞═════════╡
│ Ahoj │
└─────────┘
(1 row)

Regards

Pavel

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