Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-02-26 18:08:32
Message-ID: 530E2DA0.3020108@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 02/26/2014 07:41 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 07:02 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> It is not in any specs, but nevertheless all major imlementations do it and
>>> some code depends on it.
>>> IIRC, this behaviour is currently also met only by json and not by jsonb.
>> Yes: This was the agreement that was struck and is the main reason why
>> there are two json types, not one. JSON does not guarantee field
>> ordering as I read the spec and for the binary form ordering is not
>> maintained as a concession to using the hstore implementation.
> Actually, that's not true; neither Mongo/BSON nor CouchDB preserve field
> ordering.
That is strange at least for BSON, as it does not have any nearly as
sophisticated
internal format as hstore - no hash tables or anything, just a binary
serialisation.
It would take an extra effort to *not* keep the order there :)

http://bsonspec.org/#/specification

Cheers

--
Hannu Krosing
PostgreSQL Consultant
Performance, Scalability and High Availability
2ndQuadrant Nordic OÜ

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