On 11/19/2013 01:43 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>
> I have not really pondered storing scalars into jsonb but before pondering
> usability are there any technical concerns. If the goal is to share the
> backend with hstore then current hstore does not allow for this and so the
> json aspect would either transfer back over or it would need customized
> code.
>
Your premise here is simply wrong. The new hstore code does support
scalar root elements.
cheers
andew