Create jsonb data structure from columns

You can create a jsonb object by casting a string version of the object to jsonb:

> select '{"a": 1, "b": 2}'::jsonb;
      jsonb
------------------
 {"a": 1, "b": 2}

When using values from columns to create a jsonb object its not practical to construct a string. In this case you want to use jsonb_build_object:

> select jsonb_build_object('a', a.x) from (select x from generate_series(1, 10) as x) as a;
 jsonb_build_object
--------------------
 {"a": 1}
 {"a": 2}
 {"a": 3}
 {"a": 4}
 {"a": 5}
 {"a": 6}
 {"a": 7}
 {"a": 8}
 {"a": 9}
 {"a": 10}

jsonb_build_object is a variatic function and takes a variable number of arguments. So you can add additional values like this:

jsonb_build_object('a', 1, 'b', 2)