Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

On 2023-12-03 Su 20:14, Joe Conway wrote:
> (please don't top quote on the Postgres lists)
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> On 12/3/23 17:38, Davin Shearer wrote:
>> " being quoted as \\" breaks the JSON. It needs to be \".  This has 
>> been my whole problem with COPY TO for JSON.
>>
>> Please validate that the output is in proper format with correct 
>> quoting for special characters. I use `jq` on the command line to 
>> validate and format the output.
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> I just hooked existing "row-to-json machinery" up to the "COPY TO" 
> statement. If the output is wrong (just for for this use case?), that 
> would be a missing feature (or possibly a bug?).
>
> Davin -- how did you work around the issue with the way the built in 
> functions output JSON?
>
> Andrew -- comments/thoughts?
>
>

I meant to mention this when I was making comments yesterday.

The patch should not be using CopyAttributeOutText - it will try to 
escape characters such as \, which produces the effect complained of 
here, or else we need to change its setup so we have a way to inhibit 
that escaping.


cheers


andrew



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