Re: Emitting JSON to file using COPY TO

[Joe Conway]

On 12/2/23 16:53, Nathan Bossart wrote:

On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 10:11:20AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

So if you are writing a production that might need to match
FORMAT followed by JSON, you need to match FORMAT_LA too.

Thanks for the pointer.  That does seem to be the culprit.

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index d631ac89a9..048494dd07 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -3490,6 +3490,10 @@ copy_generic_opt_elem:
                  {
                      $$ = makeDefElem($1, $2, @1);
                  }
+            | FORMAT_LA copy_generic_opt_arg
+                {
+                    $$ = makeDefElem("format", $2, @1);
+                }
          ;

copy_generic_opt_arg:

Yep -- I concluded the same. Thanks Tom!

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