On 12/31/18 12:58 PM, Mark Mikulec wrote:
I changed it to be just the single float value I needed to extract out of the JSON object, but originally it was a text column that held the entire JSON object.

Might want to look at:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/datatype-json.html

Might handle the escaping better.

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:52 PM Adrian Klaver <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On 12/31/18 9:36 AM, Mark Mikulec wrote:
     > Hi,
     >
     > This command, which generates a JSON object as output, has some
    escaped
     > data with backslashes: (see line 91 here:
    https://pastebin.com/D4it8ybS)
     >
     > C:\\Portable\\curl\\curl.exe -k
     >
    "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?etcVariablesDeleted";'
     >
     > I use the COPY command to pull it into a temp table like so:
     >
     > COPY temp_maps_api from program 'C:\\Portable\\curl\\curl.exe -k
     >
    "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?etcVariablesDeleted";';

    So temp_maps_api has a single JSON field?

     >
     > However copy eats those backslashes. I need to use
    quote_literal() but
     > that's a syntax error. For some reason the COPY command doesn't
    allow
     > for ESCAPE to work with programs, only CSV.
     >
     > I tried using WITH BINARY but I get the error message: "COPY file
     > signature not recognized"
     >
     > Does anyone know how to make COPY FROM PROGRAM take the output
    literally?
     >
     > Thanks,
     >    Mark
     > ᐧ


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