Full-text search since PostgreSQL 8.3

Welcome to the third – and last – part of this blog series, exploring how the PostgreSQL performance evolved over the years. The first part looked at OLTP workloads, represented...
November 05, 2020

jsonb_set_lax

Recently there were some complaints about the behaviour of the jsonb_set function. Specifically, the complain was that if the value argument of the function is null the result is null...
January 20, 2020

[Video] Introduction to JSON data types in PostgreSQL

The video of my presentation below walks you through the major features of the native JSON data type in PostgreSQL 9.3 and beyond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFes871CN0 This presentation covers the following topics...
October 07, 2018

JSONB type performance in PostgreSQL 9.4

The 9.4 version of PostgreSQL introduces the JSONB data type, a specialised representation of the JSON data, allowing PostgreSQL to be competitive in managing the “lingua franca” of the moment...
March 03, 2015