Re: Please provide examples of rows from

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Guyren Howe <guyren@gmail.com>, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-20T18:14:00Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
I wrote:
> You're right that the only suitable core function is going to be
> json[b]_to_recordset, but I don't see why you can't extend the
> existing example for that.  Something like

Meh, I was too hasty and pushed "send" with a broken example.  Better

=# select * from rows from (json_to_recordset('[{"a":1,"b":"foo"},{"a":"2","b":"bar"}]') as (a int, b text), generate_series(1,3)) as x(p,q,s);
 p |  q  | s 
---+-----+---
 1 | foo | 1
 2 | bar | 2
   |     | 3
(3 rows)

			regards, tom lane



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