Re: inserting json content from a file into table column

I am trying to insert directly into table using pgAdmin tool.

I came across something like this

create temporary table temp_json (values jsonb) on commit drop;
copy temp_json from 'C:\Users\\conceptmaps.json';

insert into jsontest ('food') from ---*
//
sp copy seeme to have copied the contents from conceptmaps.json ( from
message displayed)
now how to store that content into column 'food'

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:20 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 02/10/2016 08:01 AM, Shashank Dutt Jha wrote:
>>
>>> psql. PostgreSQL v9.5
>>>
>>
>> A quick and dirty method:
>>
>> aklaver(at)test=> create table json_test(id integer, json_fld jsonb);
>> CREATE TABLE
>>
>> aklaver(at)test=> \e sample.json
>>
>> \e opens an editor. Inside editor add INSERT statement to file:
>>
>> INSERT INTO json_test VALUES(1, '
>> {
>> "glossary": {
>> "title": "example glossary",
>> "GlossDiv": {
>> "title": "S",
>> "GlossList": {
>> "GlossEntry": {
>> "ID": "SGML",
>> "SortAs": "SGML",
>> "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
>> "Acronym": "SGML",
>> "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
>> "GlossDef": {
>> "para": "A meta-markup language, used to create
>> markup languages such as DocBook.",
>> "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
>> },
>> "GlossSee": "markup"
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> }');
>>
>>
> ​I'd suggest dollar-quoting if going this route - the possibility of the
> json containing single quotes is significantly large to warrant it.
>
> [...] VALUES(1,$$json$
> {...}
> $json$);
>
> In Linux we'd do:
>
> (backticks used below)
> \set json_var `cat json_file.txt`
> INSERT INTO tbl (json_col) VALUES (:'json_var');
>
> ​Not sure about Windows though​.
>
> David J.
>
>