Hadn't really thought of using a foreign table up at this point...
thanks for that.
Will the first solution handle formatting issues (e.g. single quotes) gracefully?
I think I'd tried it in the past and it didn't work.
PD: I have such a script that handle's the intricacies but it'd still emit to stdout. (hence the curl simplified in the example)
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 2:40 PM Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com> wrote:
2020年12月26日(土) 20:19 Markur Sens <markursens@gmail.com>: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to build a few data pipelines with Unix tools but can't figure out how to insert in a slurp mode (e.g. not COPY line by line) content inside a variable. > > Consider the following script (using a heredoc) > > json_url="https://....file.json" > local_file="/tmp/a.json" > > curl -s -m 10 -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0' \ > --max-redirs 0 -o ${local_file} ${json_url} > > psql "$PG_URI" -qAt <<SQL > create table if not exists (data jsonb); > > insert into my_table(data) values (pg_read_file('${local_file}')::jsonb) > on conflict do nothing; > SQL > > The question is, how can I achieve the same result, without having to hit the disk due. to the temporary file. > I tried running by using pg_read_file('/dev/stdin')::jsonb