Re: [SQL] Better way to sort a JSONB array?

What do you mean by "better"?

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​The only other possibility would be:

CREATE TABLE json_table2 AS

select jsonb_agg(row_to_json(alias) order by portal_name) from

(select * from jsonb_populate_recordset(...)) alias​;

i.e., move the order by into the aggregate; I prefer CREATE TABLE AS over SELECT INTO ...

I don't know why you are thinking there is a better way...you are doing two distinct actions here and you have two invocations of select...seems like the minimal possible number of sub-statements to me.  No one has written a c-language function for core that provides a more friendly interface to this.  Looking at your query doing so using dynamic SQL within a pl/pgsql function would seem reasonably easy.

I would suggest not using "json_table2" as both the name of the input variable and the target table name - it can be confusing to follow when you overload names like that.

David J.