On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com> wrote: > How can I use row_to_json for a subset of columns in a row? (without > creating a new view or using a CTE?) > > What I want returned: > {"email_address":"joe@tanga.com","username":"joevandyk"} > Note that there is no "id" column in the result. > > > create table users (id serial primary key, email_address varchar, > username varchar); > insert into users (email_address, username) values ('joe@tanga.com', > 'joevandyk');
This is the best I can come up with:
select row_to_json(f) from (select email_address, username from users) f;