Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>

From: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>

To: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>

Cc: Davin Shearer <scholarsmate@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2023-11-27T16:14:46Z

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Add option force_array for COPY JSON FORMAT
- 4c0390ac53b7 19 (unreleased) landed
json format for COPY TO
- 7dadd38cda95 19 (unreleased) landed
introduce CopyFormat, refactor CopyFormatOptions
- a2145605ee3d 19 (unreleased) landed
Doc: add IDs to copy.sgml's <varlistentry> and <refsect1>
- e4018f891dec 19 (unreleased) cited

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:04 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
wrote:

> On 11/27/23 01:44, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:33 AM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com
> > <mailto:ddevienne@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > On second thought, I guess that's COPY in its text modes doing the
> escaping?
> > Interesting. The text-based modes of COPY are configurable. There's even
> > a JSON mode.
>
> Where are you seeing the JSON mode for COPY? AFAIK there is only text
> and CSV formats.
>

Indeed. Somehow I thought there was...
I've used the TEXT and BINARY modes, and remembered a wishful thinking JSON
mode!
OK then, if there was, then what I wrote would apply :). --DD