On 09/15/2014 09:46 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
On 09/16/2014 07:44 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
FWIW, I am slightly concerned about weighing use cases around very
large JSON documents too heavily. Having enormous jsonb documents just
isn't going to work out that well, but neither will equivalent designs
in popular document database systems for similar reasons. For example,
the maximum BSON document size supported by MongoDB is 16 megabytes,
and that seems to be something that their users don't care too much
about. Having 270 pairs in an object isn't unreasonable, but it isn't
going to be all that common either.
Also, at a certain size the fact that Pg must rewrite the whole document
for any change to it starts to introduce other practical changes.
Anyway - this is looking like the change will go in, and with it a
catversion bump. Introduction of a jsonb version/flags byte might be
worthwhile at the same time. It seems likely that there'll be more room
for improvement in jsonb, possibly even down to using different formats
for different data.
Is it worth paying a byte per value to save on possible upgrade pain?
This comment seems to have drowned in the discussion.
If there indeed has to be a catversion bump in the process of this, then
I agree with Craig.
Jan
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