Re: JSON output from psql

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JSON output from psql
Date: 2020-05-11 20:23:51
Message-ID: CA+TgmoahevkF=czqJMkb=-zDL+ENXF95ZSQy0qa6KX=jk-9pqA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:32 PM Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im> wrote:
> There's no standard format that comes to mind, but perhaps an output format similar to that of (array of row_to_json()) would be desirable. For example, `select relname, relnamespace from pg_class;` would emit the following:
>
> [
> {"relname": "pgclass", "relnamespace": 11},
> {"relname": "pg_statistic", "relnamespace": 11},
> ]

I don't see why psql needs any special support. You can already
generate this using the existing server side functions, if you want
it.

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Robert Haas
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