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From: Bzzzz <[email protected]>
To: hubert depesz lubaczewski <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: hstore or jsonb ?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:51:55 +0100
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:32:24 +0100
hubert depesz lubaczewski <[email protected]> wrote:

> > But is there anything that hstore can that JSON cannot?
> 
> It's faster for some things:
> https://www.depesz.com/2021/04/21/getting-value-from-dynamic-column-in-pl-pgsql-triggers/

Thanks for the URL, the difference is indeed quite large.

> And it can be trivially used to check for differences in update
> triggers:
> hstore(NEW) - hstore(OLD)

I didn't knew that (and it's not part of the official doc :/)

> It's "abusability" is lower thanks to lack of nesting.

Yeah, it is a problem as some specs can contain a list, I discovered
that last night - so jsonb it'll be.

Jean-Yves

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