On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58:57AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
> > How about:
> >
> > This data type allows for faster access to values in the json document
> > and faster and more useful indexing of json.
>
> We should refer to the fact that jsonb is internally typed. This isn't
> all that obvious now, but it is evident for example when you sort a
> set of raw scalar numeric jsonb values, which has a sane ordering (the
> implementation invokes numeric_cmp()). You also get an internal,
> per-number-scalar display scale, just like the numeric type proper.
> I'm not all that sure about how to go about succinctly expressing
> this, but clearly it's important.
How about:
JSONB values are also mapped to SQL scalar data types, rather
than being treated always as strings.
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