Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

On 12/2/23 13:50, Maciek Sakrejda wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:32 AM Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> 1. Is supporting JSON array format sufficient, or does it need to
>> support some other options? How flexible does the support scheme need to be?
> 
> "JSON Lines" is a semi-standard format [1] that's basically just
> newline-separated JSON values. (In fact, this is what
> log_destination=jsonlog gives you for Postgres logs, no?) It might be
> worthwhile to support that, too.
> 
> [1]: https://jsonlines.org/


Yes, I have seen examples of that associated with other databases (MSSQL 
and Duckdb at least) as well. It probably makes sense to support that 
format too.

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Joe Conway
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