On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still find the phrasing "as jsonb is more efficient for most
> purposes" to be a bit off Basically, the text json type is faster for
> serialization/deserialization pattern (not just document preservation)
> and jsonb is preferred when storing json and doing repeated
>subdocument accesses.
Hm, I'm going to withdraw that. I had done some testing of simple
deserialization (cast to text and the like) and noted that jsonb was
as much as 5x slower. However, I just did some checking on
json[b]_populate_recordset though and it's pretty much a wash.
merlin
