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Subject: Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:32:54 -0500
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Thanks for the responses everyone.
I worked around the issue using the `psql -tc` method as Filip described.
I think it would be great to support writing JSON using COPY TO at
some point so I can emit JSON to files using a PostgreSQL function directly.
-Davin
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 2:36 AM Filip Sedlák <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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