From 982b9bc28475354287686369fd113d6746715cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Trowbridge <paul@hptrow.me>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 20:44:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] function to convert jsonb array into a string of text
 seperated by delimiter

---
 postgres/jsonb_array_string_agg.sql | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 postgres/jsonb_array_string_agg.sql

diff --git a/postgres/jsonb_array_string_agg.sql b/postgres/jsonb_array_string_agg.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58183e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/postgres/jsonb_array_string_agg.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS public.jsonb_array_string_agg;
+CREATE FUNCTION public.jsonb_array_string_agg(_arr jsonb, _delim text) RETURNS text AS
+$$
+DECLARE
+    _ret text;
+
+BEGIN
+
+SELECT 
+    string_agg(ae.v,_delim)
+INTO
+    _ret
+FROM 
+    jsonb_array_elements_text(_arr) ae(v);
+
+return _ret;
+
+END;
+$$
+LANGUAGE plpgsql;