Re: 9.4 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: 9.4 release notes
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Msg-id 5367F0F9.3080705@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: 9.4 release notes  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: 9.4 release notes  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On 05/05/2014 02:33 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 11:31 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>     JSONB values are also mapped to SQL scalar data types, rather
>> than being treated always as strings.
> + ... allowing for correct sorting of JSON according to internal datums.
>


The problem is that at least in one sense that's not what we're doing. 
The canonical ordering of object keys is not at all standard lexical 
ordering.

I really don't think this is Release Notes material. The fact that jsonb 
maps scalar values to internal postgres types is an implementation artefact.

cheers

andrew



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