> RV>> It simply is the way the application stores the data. For Oracle > we are storing in XML and JSON format, for postgres, due do > limitations of XML api, we are storing in VARCHAR. Why not use JSON in Postgres then? Postgres' JSON functions are at least as powerful as Oracle's (if not better in a lot of areas). Would be interesting to see what XML function/feature from Oracle you can't replicate/migrate to Postgres. Another option might be to upgrade to Postgres 12 and define those columns as generated columns as part of the table, rather than a view. Then you only pay the performance penalty of the extracValueJS() function when you update the table, not for every select. Thomas
