Postgres: How to convert a json string to text?

Question

Json value may consist of a string value. eg.:

postgres=# SELECT to_json(\'Some \"text\"\'::TEXT);
     to_json
-----------------
 \"Some \\\"text\\\"\"
         


        

Answer 1

An easy way of doing this:

SELECT  ('[' || to_json('Some "text"'::TEXT) || ']')::json ->> 0;

Just convert the json string into a json list