hi,
i am looking into json support of the upcoming 9.2 release and have a question about the row_to_json function. is there
away to specify the column aliases of a nested composite row without creating a custom type ?
here is an example:
select
row_to_json(t1)
from (
select
'joe' as username,
row(1, 'prj1') project
) t1;
the output is:
{"username":"joe","project":{"f1":1,"f2":"prj1"}}
i want the output to be:
{"username":"joe","project":{"project_id":1,"project_name":"prj1"}}
i thought of something like this:
select
row_to_json(t1)
from (
select
'joe' as username,
(select * from (values(1, 'prj1')) as project(project_id, project_name)) as project
) t1;
but this fails with "ERROR: subquery must return only one column".
any help would be really appreciated.
regards
jan zimmek