Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

Davin Shearer <davin@apache.org>

From: Davin Shearer <davin@apache.org>

To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

Date: 2023-12-04T01:27:49Z

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Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →

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

I worked around it by using select json_agg(t)... and redirecting it to
file via psql on the command line. COPY TO was working until we ran into
broken JSON and discovered the double quoting issue due to some values
containing " in them.