Select Rows postgres SQL where Key = String for all elements of Jsonb Array

Question

So I have a Postgres SQL table that has a column of the type jsonb array. Looks like this more or less:

[{"adi": "cat", "status": "ACTIVE"}, {"adi": "dog", "status": "ACTIVE"}, {"adi": "bird", "status": "INACTIVE"}]
[{"adi": "fish", "status": "ACTIVE"}, {"adi": "dog", "status": "ACTIVE"}, {"adi": "reptile", "status": "ACTIVE"}]

So I want to select rows that only have animals with status ACTIVE in column 2.

Any ideas of how to go about it?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Assuming the only two values are ACTIVE and INACTIVE you can use a SQL JSON/Path expression:

select *
from the_table
where not the_column @@ '$[*].status == "INACTIVE"'

Another option is the contains operator @>

select *
from the_table
where not the_column @> '[{"status": "INACTIVE"}]'

This returns all rows that do not contain a status with INACTIVE