Loop through key/value pairs of a jsonb object in postgresql function












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I am trying to create a function in Postgres that can loop through each key/value pair in a given jsonb object.



create or replace function myFunction
(input jsonb)
returns jsonb as $$
BEGIN

// foreach(key in input)
// do some math operation on its corresponding value

returns input;

END; $$


The argument input is expected to be a jsonb object, such as {"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}.



I want to loop through each key/value pair in the object. As you can tell from my comment, I used to write backend code with more general-purpose programming languages like c, java, etc. So I am not good at SQL. I have tried to search online, but they talk about how to loop through jsonb array instead of object. So really stuck here.










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I am trying to create a function in Postgres that can loop through each key/value pair in a given jsonb object.



create or replace function myFunction
(input jsonb)
returns jsonb as $$
BEGIN

// foreach(key in input)
// do some math operation on its corresponding value

returns input;

END; $$


The argument input is expected to be a jsonb object, such as {"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}.



I want to loop through each key/value pair in the object. As you can tell from my comment, I used to write backend code with more general-purpose programming languages like c, java, etc. So I am not good at SQL. I have tried to search online, but they talk about how to loop through jsonb array instead of object. So really stuck here.










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I am trying to create a function in Postgres that can loop through each key/value pair in a given jsonb object.



create or replace function myFunction
(input jsonb)
returns jsonb as $$
BEGIN

// foreach(key in input)
// do some math operation on its corresponding value

returns input;

END; $$


The argument input is expected to be a jsonb object, such as {"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}.



I want to loop through each key/value pair in the object. As you can tell from my comment, I used to write backend code with more general-purpose programming languages like c, java, etc. So I am not good at SQL. I have tried to search online, but they talk about how to loop through jsonb array instead of object. So really stuck here.










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I am trying to create a function in Postgres that can loop through each key/value pair in a given jsonb object.



create or replace function myFunction
(input jsonb)
returns jsonb as $$
BEGIN

// foreach(key in input)
// do some math operation on its corresponding value

returns input;

END; $$


The argument input is expected to be a jsonb object, such as {"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}.



I want to loop through each key/value pair in the object. As you can tell from my comment, I used to write backend code with more general-purpose programming languages like c, java, etc. So I am not good at SQL. I have tried to search online, but they talk about how to loop through jsonb array instead of object. So really stuck here.







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  • Why the tag [sql-server]? I removed it. You only speak of Postgres ...

    – Erwin Brandstetter
    20 mins ago





















  • Why the tag [sql-server]? I removed it. You only speak of Postgres ...

    – Erwin Brandstetter
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Why the tag [sql-server]? I removed it. You only speak of Postgres ...

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Why the tag [sql-server]? I removed it. You only speak of Postgres ...

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Use jsonb_each(jsonb) or jsonb_each_text(jsonb) in a FOR loop like:



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pg_temp.my_function(input jsonb)
RETURNS jsonb
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS -- language declaration required
$func$
DECLARE
_key text;
_value text;
BEGIN
FOR _key, _value IN
SELECT jsonb_each_text($1)
LOOP
-- do some math operation on its corresponding value
RAISE NOTICE '%: %', _key, _value;
END LOOP;

RETURN input;
END
$func$;


Call:



SELECT pg_temp.my_function('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}');


Related:




  • Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL


Note that for many problems where people used to programming languages like c, java, etc. would tend to use a loop, there is a superior set-based solution around the corner ...






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Use jsonb_each(jsonb) or jsonb_each_text(jsonb) in a FOR loop like:



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pg_temp.my_function(input jsonb)
RETURNS jsonb
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS -- language declaration required
$func$
DECLARE
_key text;
_value text;
BEGIN
FOR _key, _value IN
SELECT jsonb_each_text($1)
LOOP
-- do some math operation on its corresponding value
RAISE NOTICE '%: %', _key, _value;
END LOOP;

RETURN input;
END
$func$;


Call:



SELECT pg_temp.my_function('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}');


Related:




  • Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL


Note that for many problems where people used to programming languages like c, java, etc. would tend to use a loop, there is a superior set-based solution around the corner ...






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Use jsonb_each(jsonb) or jsonb_each_text(jsonb) in a FOR loop like:



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pg_temp.my_function(input jsonb)
RETURNS jsonb
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS -- language declaration required
$func$
DECLARE
_key text;
_value text;
BEGIN
FOR _key, _value IN
SELECT jsonb_each_text($1)
LOOP
-- do some math operation on its corresponding value
RAISE NOTICE '%: %', _key, _value;
END LOOP;

RETURN input;
END
$func$;


Call:



SELECT pg_temp.my_function('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}');


Related:




  • Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL


Note that for many problems where people used to programming languages like c, java, etc. would tend to use a loop, there is a superior set-based solution around the corner ...






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Use jsonb_each(jsonb) or jsonb_each_text(jsonb) in a FOR loop like:



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pg_temp.my_function(input jsonb)
RETURNS jsonb
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS -- language declaration required
$func$
DECLARE
_key text;
_value text;
BEGIN
FOR _key, _value IN
SELECT jsonb_each_text($1)
LOOP
-- do some math operation on its corresponding value
RAISE NOTICE '%: %', _key, _value;
END LOOP;

RETURN input;
END
$func$;


Call:



SELECT pg_temp.my_function('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}');


Related:




  • Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL


Note that for many problems where people used to programming languages like c, java, etc. would tend to use a loop, there is a superior set-based solution around the corner ...






share|improve this answer















Use jsonb_each(jsonb) or jsonb_each_text(jsonb) in a FOR loop like:



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pg_temp.my_function(input jsonb)
RETURNS jsonb
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS -- language declaration required
$func$
DECLARE
_key text;
_value text;
BEGIN
FOR _key, _value IN
SELECT jsonb_each_text($1)
LOOP
-- do some math operation on its corresponding value
RAISE NOTICE '%: %', _key, _value;
END LOOP;

RETURN input;
END
$func$;


Call:



SELECT pg_temp.my_function('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}');


Related:




  • Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL


Note that for many problems where people used to programming languages like c, java, etc. would tend to use a loop, there is a superior set-based solution around the corner ...







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