I have the following data in a postgres table,
where data is a jsonb column. I would like to get result as
[
{field_type: "Design", briefings_count: 1, meetings_count: 13},
{field_type: "Engineering", briefings_count: 1, meetings_count: 13},
{field_type: "Data Science", briefings_count: 0, meetings_count: 3}
]
Explanation
Use jsonb_each_text function to extract data from jsonb column named data. Then aggregate rows by using GROUP BY to get one row for each distinct field_type. For each aggregation we also need to include meetings and briefings count which is done by selecting maximum value with case statement so that you can create two separate columns for different counts. On top of that apply coalesce function to return 0 instead of NULL if some information is missing - in your example it would be briefings for Data Science.
At a higher level of statement now that we have the results as a table with fields we need to build a jsonb object and aggregate them all to one row. For that we're using jsonb_build_object to which we are passing pairs that consist of: name of the field + value. That brings us with 3 rows of data with each row having a separate jsonb column with the data. Since we want only one row (an aggregated json) in the output we need to apply jsonb_agg on top of that. This brings us the result that you're looking for.
Code
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select
jsonb_agg(
jsonb_build_object('field_type', field_type,
'briefings_count', briefings_count,
'meetings_count', meetings_count
)
) as agg_data
from (
select
j.k as field_type
, coalesce(max(case when t.count_type = 'briefings_count' then j.v::int end),0) as briefings_count
, coalesce(max(case when t.count_type = 'meetings_count' then j.v::int end),0) as meetings_count
from tbl t,
jsonb_each_text(data) j(k,v)
group by j.k
) t
You can aggregate columns like this and then insert data to another table
select array_agg(data)
from the_table
Or use one of built-in json function to create new json array. For example jsonb_agg(expression)
