printing JsonbPair values of input JSONB on server side?

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Hi,

I am trying to write a PostgreSQL (11.2) server side function to read the
key-value pairs of an input JSONB object. The code I have assembled so far
(by mimicking existing code I can find) is below. (This is the closest
thing I can find/write, and I couldn't find any documentation by the way.)


    PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(print_kv_pair);
    Datum
    print_kv_pair(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
    {
        Jsonb *jb1 = PG_GETARG_JSONB_P(0);
        JsonbIterator *it1;
        JsonbValue    v1;
        JsonbIteratorToken r1;
        JsonbParseState *state = NULL;

        if (jb1 == NULL)
            PG_RETURN_JSONB_P(jb1);

        if (!JB_ROOT_IS_OBJECT(jb1))
            ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
errmsg("Can only take objects")));

        elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): ok0");

        it1 = JsonbIteratorInit(&jb1->root);
        r1 = JsonbIteratorNext(&it1, &v1, false);

        if (r1 != WJB_BEGIN_OBJECT)
            ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
errmsg("Iterator was not an object")));

        elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): ok1");
        pushJsonbValue(&state, r1, NULL);
        r1 = JsonbIteratorNext(&it1, &v1, false);
        JsonbValue *object = &v1;

        elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): ok2");
        Assert(object->type == jbvObject);

        elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): ok3, nPairs = %d",
object->val.object.nPairs);

        //iterating through key-value pairs
        JsonbPair  *ptr;
        for (ptr = object->val.object.pairs;
                ptr - object->val.object.pairs < object->val.object.nPairs;
ptr++)
        {
    //Problem line!!!
    //            elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): k = %s, v = %s",
ptr->key.val.string.val, numeric_out(ptr->value.val.numeric));
        }

        elog(NOTICE, "print_kv_pair(): ok4");

        PG_RETURN_JSONB_P(JsonbValueToJsonb(object));
    }

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For example, for sample input:

    select print_kv_pair('{"a":1, "b": 2}');
, I expect it to print something like:

    k = "a", v = 1
    k = "b", v = 2

However, the code crashes the PostgreSQL server, when I try to print (at
the `Problem line!!!`).

*Can someone explain how to fix the code and correctly iterate through the
key-value pairs?*

Sample output with problem line disabled:

    => select print_kv_pair('{"a":1, "b": 2}');
    NOTICE:  print_kv_pair(): ok0
    NOTICE:  print_kv_pair(): ok1
    NOTICE:  print_kv_pair(): ok2
    NOTICE:  print_kv_pair(): ok3, nPairs = 1
    NOTICE:  print_kv_pair(): ok4
     print_kv_pair
    ---------------
     "a"
    (1 row)


One additional question:
Without documentation, I don't understand what these two lines do, and
whether they should be deleted.

        pushJsonbValue(&state, r1, NULL);
        r1 = JsonbIteratorNext(&it1, &v1, false);

The doxygen page says that there is no reverse of `JsonbValueToJsonb`
(i.e.  `
JsonbToJsonbValue`). But I guess that's exactly what's needed here (to
extract the JsonbValue from the JSONB object). I don't quite get the work
around hinted there.


Thanks in advance for your help,