On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> The fact that jsonb maps scalar values to internal postgres types is an
> implementation artefact.
I wouldn't go that far, but I take your point. The fact that the
primitive/scalar JSON types are in a very real sense strongly typed is
a very important detail, though. The fact that what became jsonb is
like a nested, typed hstore has always been prominently emphasized,
for good reasons.
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Peter Geoghegan