Re: Jsonb column

Ah,

Now I see what is going on. SETOF is like a NESTED TABLE in Oracle in the sense that each function is returning a table structure (SETOF). Because I used

FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY

the query is technically only returning 1 row from the output AFTER the rest of the query runs. It is generating output, then the limiting takes place, so the first row returned from json_object_keys & jsonb_each return only 1 row each also.

So if I change my query to, because the first row returned has 20 keys:

SELECT message_time
,airport
,jsonb_pretty(properties) as properties
,jsonb_object_keys(properties) as keys
,jsonb_each(properties) as json
FROM JMS_MESSAGE
FETCH FIRST 20 ROWS ONLY;

it will return all the SETOF rows back with repeating values from the JMS_MESSAGE table itself.

Since I am just trying to get an idea of what key are stored in this table column, AND this table has over 288 million rows, I limited it to show just the first row. This is what caused my the confusion.

So

Thanks for the help.

On March 12, 2019 at 10:27 AM Alexandru Lazarev <alexandru.lazarev@gmail.com> wrote:

Because you obtain Cartesian JOIN between following data-sources:

- jsonb_pretty(properties) as properties,

- jsonb_object_keys(properties) as keys, which is SETOF all keys

- jsonb_each(properties) as json, which is SETOF jey-values from your column

properties::jsonb ? 'sendTo' as second, which is single TRUE/FALSE

Then you do

"FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY;"

which will return only 1st row of all rows from above combinations

Maybe You need something like?

SELECT jsonb_pretty( j.properties) as properties,jsonb_object_keys( j.properties) as keys,jsonb_each( j.properties) as json, j.properties::jsonb ? 'sendTo' as second FROM

(select * from JMS_MESSAGE FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY) j;

But for each key (from "jsonb_object_keys") and key-values row (from "jsonb_each") you'll have fetched each time full jsonb column pretty-printed and TRUE/FALSE from "?"-operator

Regards,

AlexL

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:33 PM MICHAEL LAZLO < giantmetfan@comcast.net> wrote:

I have a table that has a column, properties, of type jsonb.


Based on documentation:


https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/functions-json.html


To see all key / value pairs laid out as a table structure of columns, I can use function:


jsonb_each(jsonb) which returns:


"setof key text, value jsonb"


Also if I want to see just the keys, I can use function:


jsonb_object_keys(jsonb) which returns:


"Returns set of keys in the outermost JSON object."


, as per documentation.


So why does my output look like this:


SELECT jsonb_pretty(properties) as properties,jsonb_object_keys(properties) as keys,jsonb_each(properties) as json, properties::jsonb ? 'sendTo' as second FROM JMS_MESSAGE
FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY;
 properties | keys | json | second
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------+---------------+--------
 { +| uri | (uri,"""/""") | t
 "uri": "/", +| | |
 "sendTo": "all", +| | |
 "tracon": "A80", +| | |
 "airport": "KATL", +| | |
 "msgType": "ML", +| | |
 "version": "4.0", +| | |
 "__HQ_CID": "5499f946-2ec6-11e9-916d-d566236f637b", +| | |
 "globalID": "41965859", +| | |
 "msgSeqID": "2530832", +| | |
 "timeline": "1550015275141 1550015275141 1550015275216", +| | |
 "timestamp": "2019-02-12T23:47:55.141Z", +| | |
 "req_method": "POST", +| | |
 "JMS_Solace_isXML": "true", +| | |
 "JMSXDeliveryCount": "1", +| | |
 "HQ_BRIDGE_MSG_ID_LIST": "ID:10.182.186.1188f32163b022a1ad0:16940996805",+| | |
 "JMS_Solace_DeliverToOne": "false", +| | |
 "solace_routing_dest_name": "SMES/all/ML/KATL/A80", +| | |
 "JMS_Solace_ElidingEligible": "false", +| | |
 "JMS_Solace_DeadMsgQueueEligible": "false", +| | |
 "Solace_JMS_Prop_IS_Reply_Message": "false" +| | |
 } | | |
(1 row)


The above jsonb_each and jsonb_object_keys both return only the first key. The boolean check if some key is in the jsonb column, (properties::jsonb ? 'sendTo'), returns true so I should see it in the returns for jsonb_each and json_object_keys.


Anyone know why I am not seeing all the keys in this row column?