Re: 9.4 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: 9.4 release notes
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Msg-id 53664DB6.7060603@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: 9.4 release notes  (Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: 9.4 release notes
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On 05/04/2014 10:12 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 04/05/14 14:46, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I have completed the initial version of the 9.4 release notes.  You can
>> view them here:
>>
>>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-4.html
>>
>> I will be adding additional markup in the next few days.
>>
>> Feedback expected and welcomed.  I expect to be modifying this until we
>> release 9.4 final.  I have marked items where I need help with question
>> marks.
>>
>
> Nice work,
>
> one comment from me would be about jsonb:
>
> +       <listitem>
> +        <para>
> +         Add structured (non-text) data type (jsonb) for storing JSON 
> data (Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan)
> +        </para>
> +
> +        <para>
> +         This data type allows faster indexing and access to json 
> keys/value pairs.
> +        </para>
> +       </listitem>
>
> I think the explanation should be expanded to say that this data type 
> also has generic indexing not just faster indexing.
>


It's also slightly ambiguous - it's not immediately clear that the 
"faster" also applies to the "access".

cheers

andrew




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