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From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Extract elements from JSON array and return them as concatenatedstring
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Msg-id 2bbe305a-f94f-3385-5313-615260a862d1@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Extract elements from JSON array and return them as concatenated string  (Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Extract elements from JSON array and return them as concatenatedstring  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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On 03/14/2018 10:02 AM, Alexander Farber wrote:
> Thank you, Ivan! I am trying to apply your suggestion to my table -
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Ivan E. Panchenko 
> <i.panchenko@postgrespro.ru <mailto:i.panchenko@postgrespro.ru>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Alex,
> 
>     SELECT  string_agg(x->>'letter','') FROM json_array_elements(
> 
>     '[{"col": 7, "row": 12, "value": 3, "letter": "A"}, {"col": 8,
>     "row": 12, "value": 10, "letter": "B"}, {"col": 9, "row": 12,
>     "value": 1, "letter": "C"}, {"col": 10, "row": 12, "value": 2,
>     "letter": "D"}]'::json
> 
>     ) x;
> 
> 
> # select * from words_moves where gid=656 order by played desc limit 3;
>   mid  | action | gid | uid  |            played             
> |                                                
> tiles                                                 | score
>
------+--------+-----+------+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------
>   1353 | swap   | 656 |    7 | 2018-03-14 17:22:18.430082+01 | 
> "ЙНРР"                                                                                               
> |     ¤
>   1352 | play   | 656 | 1199 | 2018-03-14 16:55:45.898379+01 | [{"col": 
> 4, "row": 7, "value": 2, "letter": "С"}, {"col": 5, "row": 7, "value": 
> 3, "letter": "У"}]   |    19
>   1351 | play   | 656 |    7 | 2018-03-14 16:38:48.132546+01 | [{"col": 
> 9, "row": 11, "value": 5, "letter": "Ж"}, {"col": 9, "row": 13, "value": 
> 2, "letter": "М"}] |    16
> (3 rows)
> 
> by trying the following:
> 
> #  select string_agg(x->>'letter', ' ') from (select 
> jsonb_array_elements(tiles) from words_moves where gid=656 and 
> action='play' order by played desc limit 5) x;
> ERROR:  42883: operator does not exist: record ->> unknown
> LINE 1: select string_agg(x->>'letter', ' ') from (select jsonb_arra...
>                             ^
> HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You 
> might need to add explicit type casts.
> LOCATION:  op_error, parse_oper.c:728
> 
> I am probably missing something obvious?

Do you still have non-arrays in the tile field?:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAADeyWgYKKaArJb6JK_xEtSO%3D7aeNaYqBu_ef-D5W7s8EFPfpQ%40mail.gmail.com

> 
> Regards
> Alex
> 
> 


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