Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-02-10 09:41:47
Message-ID: 52F89EDB.8080405@krosing.net
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On 02/05/2014 06:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 02/05/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> switching to "binary is the same as text" may well be the most prudent
>>> path here.
>> If we do that we're going to have to live with that forever, aren't we?
> Yeah, but the other side of that coin is that we'll have to live forever
> with whatever binary format we pick, too. If it turns out to be badly
> designed, that could be much worse than eating some parsing costs during
> dump/restore.
The fastest and lowest parsing cost format for "JSON" is tnetstrings
http://tnetstrings.org/ why not use it as the binary wire format ?

It would be as binary as it gets and still be generally parse-able by
lots of different platforms, at leas by all of these we care about.

Cheers
Hannu

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