Deep search within jsonb field PostgreSQL - postgresql

Question

A sample of my data looks something like this:
{"city": "NY",
"skills": [
{"soft_skills": "Analysis"},
{"soft_skills": "Procrastination"},
{"soft_skills": "Presentation"}
],
"areas_of_training": [
{"areas of training": "Visio"},
{"areas of training": "Office"},
{"areas of training": "Risk Assesment"}
]}
I would like to run a query to find users with soft_skills Analysis and maybe run another one to find users whose area of training is Visio and Risk Assesment
My column type is jsonb. How can I implement a search query on these deeply nested objects? A query on level one for city works using SELECT * FROM mydata WHERE content::json->>'city'='NY';
How can I also run a match using the LIKE keyword or string matching for deeply nested values?

Answer 1

1)
SELECT * FROM mydata
WHERE content->'skills' #> '[{"soft_skills": "Analysis"}]';
2)
SELECT * FROM mydata
WHERE content->'areas_of_training' #> '[{"areas of training": "Visio"},{"areas of training": "Risk Assesment"}]';
About JSON(B) operators
PS: And be ready for extremely slow queries. I highly recommend to think about data normalization.
Update for LIKE
For your example data it could be:
SELECT * FROM mydata
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM jsonb_array_elements(content->'areas_of_training') as a
WHERE a->>'areas of training' ilike '%vi%');
But query highly depending on the actual JSON structure.

Answer 2

Use json_array_elements() to get values of nested elements, examples:
select d.*
from mydata d,
json_array_elements(content->'skills')
where value->>'soft_skills' ilike '%analysis%';
select d.*
from mydata d,
json_array_elements(content->'areas_of_training')
where value->>'areas of training' ~* 'visio|office';
It is possible that the query yields duplicate rows, so it is reasonable to use select distinct on (id), where id is a primary key.
Note that the function json_array_elements() is costly and you cannot use indexes in contrary to Abelisto's solution. However you have to use it if you want to have an access to values of nested json elements.