Hi,
On 2018-11-02 17:02:24 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 11/02/2018 11:34 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >
> > Binary format consuming applications already have to deal with these
> > kinds of issues. We already expose internal structures in the other
> > functions -- not sure why jsonb is held to a different standard. For
> > other data types where format changes were made, the standard of
> > 'caveat version' was in place to protect the user. For jsonb we
> > decided to implement a version flag within the type itself, which I
> > thought mistake at the time -- better to have a version header in the
> > COPY BINARY if needed.
> >
>
>
> jsonb_send does output a version header, as I pointed out upthread.
That's Merlin's point I think. For reasons I don't quite understand he
doesn't like that. Yes, a global solution would have been prettier than
per-datum version flag, but that obvioulsy wasn't realistic to introduce
around the feature freeze of the version that introduced jsonb.
Greetings,
Andres Freund