Re: default opclass for jsonb (was Re: Call for GIST/GIN/SP-GIST opclass documentation)

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Well, if we are optionally hashing json_ops for long strings, what does
> jsonb_hash_ops do uniquely with hashing?  Does it always hash, while
> json_ops optionally hashes?  Is that the distinguishing characteristic?
> It seemed the _content_ of the indexed value was more important, rather
> than the storage method.
>
> Should jsonb_hash_ops do only optional hashing too for long strings?


Well the question seems to me to be that if we're always doing recheck
then what advantage is there to not hashing everything?

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greg