On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2nd Followup: It turns out that loading a table from a JSON string is > more complicated than going from a table to JSON, perhaps for good reason. > There does not appear to be a direct inverse to the row_to_json() function, > but it wasn't difficult for me to write a PHP program that takes the JSON > file I created the other day and converts it back to a series of inserts, > recreating the original table. > > Of course this simple program does NO validation (not that this file > needed any), so if the JSON string is not well-formed for any of a number > of reasons, or if it is not properly mapped to the table into which the > inserts are made, an insert could fail or result in incorrect data. > -- > Mike Nolan > See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/functions-json.html json_populate_record(base anyelement, from_json json) json_populate_recordset(base anyelement, from_json json) Exists in 9.3 too...though if you are going heavy json I'd suggest doing whatever you can to keep up with the recent releases. David J.
