PostgreSQL JSONB query types of each keys - postgresql

Question

I have certain table:
CREATE TABLE x(
id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
data JSONB
);
INSERT INTO x(data)
VALUES( '{"a":"test", "b":123, "c":null, "d":true}' ),
( '{"a":"test", "b":123, "c":null, "d":"yay", "e":"foo", "f":[1,2,3]}' );
How to query types of each key in that table, so it would give an output something like this:
a | string:2
b | number:2
c | null:2
d | boolean:1 string:1
e | string:1
f | jsonb:1 -- or anything
I only know the way to get the keys and count, but don't know how to get the type of each key:
SELECT jsonb_object_keys(data), COUNT(id) FROM x GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1
that would give something like:
a | 2
b | 2
c | 2
d | 2
e | 1
f | 1

Answer 1

EDIT:
As pozs points out, there are two typeof functions: one for JSON and one for SQL. This query is the one you're looking for:
SELECT
json_data.key,
jsonb_typeof(json_data.value),
count(*)
FROM x, jsonb_each(x.data) AS json_data
group by key, jsonb_typeof
order by key, jsonb_typeof;
Old Answer: (Hey, it works...)
This query will return the type of the keys:
SELECT
json_data.key,
pg_typeof(json_data.value),
json_data.value
FROM x, jsonb_each(x.data) AS json_data;
... unfortunately, you'll notice that Postgres doesn't differentiate between the different JSON types. it regards it all as jsonb, so the results are:
key1 | value1 | value
------+--------+-----------
a | jsonb | "test"
b | jsonb | 123
c | jsonb | null
d | jsonb | true
a | jsonb | "test"
b | jsonb | 123
c | jsonb | null
d | jsonb | "yay"
e | jsonb | "foo"
f | jsonb | [1, 2, 3]
(10 rows)
However, there aren't that many JSON primitive types, and the output seems to be unambiguous. So this query will do what you're wanting:
with jsontypes as (
SELECT
json_data.key AS key1,
CASE WHEN left(json_data.value::text,1) = '"' THEN 'String'
WHEN json_data.value::text ~ '^-?\d' THEN
CASE WHEN json_data.value::text ~ '\.' THEN 'Number'
ELSE 'Integer'
END
WHEN left(json_data.value::text,1) = '[' THEN 'Array'
WHEN left(json_data.value::text,1) = '{' THEN 'Object'
WHEN json_data.value::text in ('true', 'false') THEN 'Boolean'
WHEN json_data.value::text = 'null' THEN 'Null'
ELSE 'Beats Me'
END as jsontype
FROM x, jsonb_each(x.data) AS json_data -- Note that it won't work if we use jsonb_each_text here because the strings won't have quotes around them, etc.
)
select *, count(*) from jsontypes
group by key1, jsontype
order by key1, jsontype;
Output:
key1 | jsontype | count
------+----------+-------
a | String | 2
b | Integer | 2
c | Null | 2
d | Boolean | 1
d | String | 1
e | String | 1
f | Array | 1
(7 rows)

Answer 2

You can improve your last query with jsonb_typeof
with jsontypes as (
SELECT
json_data.key AS key1,
jsonb_typeof(json_data.value) as jsontype
FROM x, jsonb_each(x.data) AS json_data
)
select *, count(*)
from jsontypes
group by 1, 2
order by 1, 2;