I am trying to update a JSONB field in one table with data from another table. For example,
update ms
set data = data || '{"COMMERCIAL": 3.4, "PCT" : medi_percent}'
from mix
where mix.id = mss.data_id
and data_id = 6000
and set_id = 20
This is giving me the following error -
Invalid input syntax for type json
DETAIL: Token "medi_percent" is invalid.
When I change medi_percent to a number, I don't get this error.
{"COMMERCIAL": 3.4, "PCT" : medi_percent} is not a valid JSON text. Notice there is no string interpolation happening here. You might be looking for
json_build_object('COMMERCIAL', 3.4, 'PCT', medi_percent)
instead where medi_percent is now an expression (that will presumably refer to your mix column).
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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'
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.
How can I concatenate a string inside of a concatenated jsonb object in postgresql? In other words, I am using the JSONb concatenate operator as well as the text concatenate operator in the same query and running into trouble.
Or... if there is a totally different query I should be executing, I'd appreciate hearing suggestions. The goal is to update a row containing a jsonb column. We don't want to overwrite existing key value pairs in the jsonb column that are not provided in the query and we also want to update multiple rows at once.
My query:
update contacts as c set data = data || '{"geomatch": "MATCH","latitude":'||v.latitude||'}'
from (values (16247746,40.814140),
(16247747,20.900840),
(16247748,20.890570)) as v(contact_id,latitude) where c.contact_id = v.contact_id
The Error:
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type json
LINE 85: update contacts as c set data = data || '{"geomatch": "MATCH...
^
DETAIL: The input string ended unexpectedly.
CONTEXT: JSON data, line 1: {"geomatch": "MATCH","latitude":
SQL state: 22P02
Character: 4573
You might be looking for
SET data = data || ('{"geomatch": "MATCH","latitude":'||v.latitude||'}')::jsonb
-- ^^ jsonb ^^ text ^^ text
but that's not how one should build JSON objects - that v.latitude might not be a valid JSON literal, or even contain some injection like "", "otherKey": "oops". (Admittedly, in your example you control the values, and they're numbers so it might be fine, but it's still a bad practice). Instead, use jsonb_build_object:
SET data = data || jsonb_build_object('geomatch', 'MATCH', 'latitude', v.latitude)
There are two problems. The first is operator precedence preventing your concatenation of a jsonb object to what is read a text object. The second is that the concatenation of text pieces requires a cast to jsonb.
This should work:
update contacts as c
set data = data || ('{"geomatch": "MATCH","latitude":'||v.latitude||'}')::jsonb
from (values (16247746,40.814140),
(16247747,20.900840),
(16247748,20.890570)) as v(contact_id,latitude)
where c.contact_id = v.contact_id
;
I'm trying to update a row in my PostgreSQL database and it's saying it's not finding the x column. the thing is the column pg is trying to find is actually a parameter for the new value in the jsonb_set function, so I'm at my wits end.
It's hard to explain, so I included the query and the error it throws.
Tried adding quotes, double-quotes, brackets, inside and out... didn't work.
UPDATE public.sometable
SET somecolumn = jsonb_set(somecolumn, '{firstKey, secondKey}', someInputString), update_date=NOW(), update_username="someone#somewhere.com"
WHERE id=1
RETURNING *
I'm expecting the value of the row I'm updating to be returned, instead I get:
ERROR: column "someInputString" does not exist
LINE 1: ...n = jsonb_set(somecolumn , '{firstKey, secondKey}', someInputString)...
You have to deliver a valid json value as the third argument of the function:
UPDATE public.sometable
SET
somecolumn = jsonb_set(somecolumn, '{firstKey, secondKey}', '"someInputString"'),
update_date = now(),
update_username = 'someone#somewhere.com'
WHERE id = 1
RETURNING *
Note, I guess update_username is a text, so you should use single quotes for a simple text.
Db<>fiddle.
Folks,
Can you please advise on following.
I am trying to display values in native format - Cyrillic.
Below is my query
db.session.query(items.item_name).join(item_ship, item_ship.item_id == items.id).join(house_shipment, house_shipment.id == item_ship.shipment_id).first();
Result: (u'\u041c\u0443\u0436\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0431\u0443\u0432\u044c',)
Default collation for table items is set to utf8_general_ci and my connection string is following.
mysql://root:Abc123#localhost/test?charset=utf8
Please help.
Thanks,
Your encoding is right:
>>> print(u'\u041c\u0443\u0436\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0431\u0443\u0432\u044c')
Мужская обувь
>>> print(repr(u'Мужская обувь'))
u'\u041c\u0443\u0436\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0431\u0443\u0432\u044c'
Your main problem that you are getting not a string but object that contains first result row. So you are getting repr of object.
Change .first() at the end of query to .scalar(). Scalar will return first column of first row.
As another variant you may access to row object and extract string from it.