I have a PostgreSQL table called files which includes a jsonb table called formats. While some rows are [null], others have objects with this structure:
{
"thumbnail": {
"ext": ".jpg",
"url": "https://some-url.com/image01.jpg",
"name": "image01.jpg",
//...other properties
}
}
For every row I want to update the thumbnail.url and replace some-url with other-url.
I'm far from being an expert in PostgreSQL (or any other DB for that matter), and after some reading I tried to run the following query in pgAdmin:
UPDATE files
SET formats = jsonb_set(formats, '{thumbnail.url}', REPLACE('{thumbnail.url}', 'some-url', 'other-url'))
And I received this error: function jsonb_set(jsonb, unknown, text) does not exist
I tried to set format jsonb_set(formats::jsonb...), tried to target '{thumbnail}' instead of '{thumbnail.url}' - always the same error.
What am I doing wrong? Or is pgAdmin really doesn't support this function? How can I do such an update with pgAdmin query tool?
We can try to use ->> to get JSON content value of url and then replace your expect value from that.
Because your url field of your JSON might be string type we need to use " to content it before cast as JSONB
jsonb_set(target jsonb, path text[], new_value jsonb [, create_missing boolean])
UPDATE files
SET formats = jsonb_set(formats, '{thumbnail,url}', CONCAT('"',REPLACE(formats->'thumbnail'->>'url','some-url','other-url'),'"')::JSONB);
sqlfiddle
The second parameter of jsonb_set() must be an array with one array element for each "path" element. So the second parameter should be '{thumbnail,url}' or more obvious: array['thumbnail', 'url']
And the third parameter must be a jsonb value, but replace returns a text, so you need to use e.g. to_jsonb() to convert the result of the replace() to a jsonb value.
And as D-Shih pointed out, you need to extract the old value using ->>. But to get the URL you need to "navigate" to it: formats -> 'thumbnail ->> 'url'
I would also add a WHERE clause so that you only update rows that actually contain a URL.
UPDATE files
SET formats = jsonb_set(formats,
'{thumbnail,url}',
to_jsonb(replace(formats -> 'thumbnail' ->> 'url', 'some-url', 'other-url'))
)
where (formats -> 'thumbnail') ? 'url'
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I am using Postgresql. My Yii2 code for the update is
ModelName::updateAll(['my_column' => "REPLACE(my_column1,'removed_','')"]);
Actual query is
update my_table set my_column = REPLACE(my_column1,'removed_','');
When I run my yii2 code it shows the error
SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 7 ERROR: value too long for type character varying(50)
The SQL being executed was: UPDATE "my_table" SET "my_column1"='REPLACE(my_column1,''removed_'','''')'
If you use ['column' => 'value'] syntax for attributes the framework expects that values of array are simple values and treats them accordingly. That's why your expression gets converted to string value instead of using as expression.
If you want to avoid that you need to wrap your values in yii\db\Expression like this:
ModelName::updateAll([
'my_column' => new \yii\db\Expression("REPLACE(my_column1,'removed_','')")
]);
I am using jsonb type in a column in postgresql11. And I'd like to update one field in the json data and I see there is a function jsonb_set which can be used. (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html).
However, based on the document,
jsonb_set ( target jsonb, path text[], new_value jsonb [, create_if_missing boolean ] ) → jsonb
Returns target with the item designated by path replaced by new_value, or with new_value added
if create_if_missing is true (which is the default) and the item designated by path does not
exist. All earlier steps in the path must exist, or the target is returned unchanged. As with
the path oriented operators, negative integers that appear in the path count from the end of
JSON arrays. If the last path step is an array index that is out of range, and create_if_missing
is true, the new value is added at the beginning of the array if the index is negative, or at
the end of the array if it is positive.
The first argument is target. What does target mean here? Do I need to do a query to get existing value and put it as target?
I have tried below update statement:
my current data is:
# select "taxes" from "Sites" where "id" = '6daa9b5d-d5b2-4b0d-a8ee-5ad2cb141594';
taxes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
{"feePercent": 0, "percent": 0}
And I tried below update:
# update "Sites" set "feePercent" = jsonb_set('{"feePercent": 0, "percent": 0}', '{feePercent}', 1) where "siteUuid"='6daa9b5d-d5b2-4b0d-a8ee-5ad2cb141594';
but I got below error:
ERROR: function jsonb_set(unknown, unknown, integer) does not exist
LINE 1: update "Sites" set "feePercent" = jsonb_set('{"feePerce...
jsonb_set() modifies a specific JSON object. So, your target is the JSON object (or JSON column) which you want to modify.
jsonb_set(my_jsonb_to_be_modified, ...)
So, if you had this JSON object;
{"my":"old", "json":"object"}
With the function you can turn it into:
{"my":"new", "json":"object"}
The code is:
demo:db<>fiddle
SELECT jsonb_set('{"my":"old", "json":"object"}', '{my}', '"new"')
The target is the original JSON object, the path points to the element you want to modify, and new_value is the new value for the element you specified in the path.
In that case my had the value old, which turns into new now.
From PostgreSQL v14 on, you can use subscripts to make this UPDATE statement look natural:
UPDATE "Sites"
SET taxes['feePercent'] = to_jsonb(1)
WHERE id = '6daa9b5d-d5b2-4b0d-a8ee-5ad2cb141594';
For earlier versions, you will have to use jsonb_set like this:
UPDATE "Sites"
SET taxes = jsonb_set(taxes, ARRAY['feePercent'], to_jsonb(1))
WHERE id = '6daa9b5d-d5b2-4b0d-a8ee-5ad2cb141594';
The effect is the same: the whole JSON is read, a new JSON is created and stored in a new version of the row.
All this becomes much simpler if you don't use JSON, but regular table columns.
In my Postgres database, I have one of the table columns having jsonb datatype. In that column, I am storing the JSON array. Now, I want to remove or modify a specific JSON object inside the array.
My JSON array looks like
[
{
"ModuleId": 1,
"ModuleName": "XYZ"
},
{
"ModuleId": 2,
"ModuleName": "ABC"
}
]
Now, I want to perform two operations:
How can I remove the JSON object from the above array having ModuleId as 1?
How can I modify the JSON object i.e. change the ModuleName as 'CBA' whose ModuleId is 1?
Is there a way through which I could perform queried directly on JSON array?
Note: Postgres version is 12.0
Both problems require unnesting and aggregating back the (modified) JSON elements. For both problems I would create a function to make that easier to use.
create function remove_element(p_value jsonb, p_to_remove jsonb)
returns jsonb
as
$$
select jsonb_agg(t.element order by t.idx)
from jsonb_array_elements(p_value) with ordinality as t(element, idx)
where not t.element #> p_to_remove;
$$
language sql
immutable;
The function can be used like this, e.g. in an UPDATE statement:
update the_table
set the_column = remove_element(the_column, '{"ModuleId": 1}')
where ...
For the second problem a similar function comes in handy.
create function change_value(p_value jsonb, p_what jsonb, p_new jsonb)
returns jsonb
as
$$
select jsonb_agg(
case
when t.element #> p_what then t.element||p_new
else t.element
end order by t.idx)
from jsonb_array_elements(p_value) with ordinality as t(element, idx);
$$
language sql
immutable;
The || operator will overwrite an existing key, so this effectively replaces the old name with the new name.
You can use it like this:
update the_table
set the_column = change_value(the_column, '{"ModuleId": 1}', '{"ModuleName": "CBA"}')
where ...;
I think passing the JSON values is a bit more flexible then hardcoding the keys which makes the use of the function very limited. The first function could also be used to remove array elements by comparing multiple keys.
If you don't want to create the functions, replace the function call with the select from the functions.
For your both cases, consider using a subquery including dynamic logic to determine the index of the element which contains the value for ModuleId key equal to 1.
For the First case, use #- operator :
WITH s AS
(
SELECT ('{'||idx-1||'}')::text[] AS path, jsdata
FROM tab
CROSS JOIN jsonb_array_elements(jsdata)
WITH ORDINALITY arr(j,idx)
WHERE j->>'ModuleId'='1'
)
UPDATE tab
SET jsdata = s.jsdata #- path
FROM s
and for the second case, use jsonb_set() function with path coming from thesubquery :
WITH s AS
(
SELECT ('{'||idx-1||',ModuleId}')::text[] AS path
FROM tab
CROSS JOIN jsonb_array_elements(jsdata)
WITH ORDINALITY arr(j,idx)
WHERE j->>'ModuleId'='1'
)
UPDATE tab
SET jsdata = jsonb_set(jsdata,s.path,'"CBA"',false)
FROM s
Demo
I have a field that is of type jsonb in a PostgreSQL database.
Example:
{"timestamp":"2016-12-14T04:15:04.836Z","receiptResult":{"status":"successful","timestamp":"2016-12-14T04:15:04.739Z","notes":"Customer Accepted"}}
How can I only return the "notes" in a select statement, I've tried:
SELECT data::json->>'notes' as notes
But nothing is returned, if I use:
SELECT data::json->'receiptResult' as notes;
It returns:
{"status":"successful","timestamp":"2016-114T04:15:04.739Z","notes":"Customer Accepted"}
But I only need the text after "notes".
Inside key receiptResult has another JSON object, you cannot access it in top-level. Try this:
WITH sample AS (
SELECT '{"timestamp":"2016-12-14T04:15:04.836Z","receiptResult":{"status":"successful","timestamp":"2016-12-14T04:15:04.739Z","notes":"Customer Accepted"}}'::jsonb AS my_column
)
SELECT my_column->'receiptResult'->>'notes' FROM sample;
As you can see, -> operator returns value as a JSONB and ->> operator returns as a text.
More info here.
If I have a jsonb column called value with fields such as:
{"id": "5e367554-bf4e-4057-8089-a3a43c9470c0",
"tags": ["principal", "reversal", "interest"],,, etc}
how would I find all the records containing given tags, e.g:
if given: ["reversal", "interest"]
it should find all records with either "reversal" or "interest" or both.
My experimentation got me to this abomination so far:
select value from account_balance_updated
where value #> '{}' :: jsonb and value->>'tags' LIKE '%"principal"%';
of course this is completely wrong and inefficient
Assuming you are using PG 9.4+, you can use the jsonb_array_elements() function:
SELECT DISTINCT abu.*
FROM account_balance_updated abu,
jsonb_array_elements(abu.value->'tags') t
WHERE t.value <# '["reversal", "interest"]'::jsonb;
As it turned out you can use cool jsonb operators described here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-json.html
so original query doesn't have to change much:
select value from account_balance_updated
where value #> '{}' :: jsonb and value->'tags' ?| array['reversal', 'interest'];
in my case I also needed to escape the ? (??|) because I am using so called "prepared statement" where you pass query string and parameters to jdbc and question marks are like placeholders for params:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jdbc/basics/prepared.html