Dane Foster <studdugie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering when returning JSON data from a PostgreSQL function for > consumption by clients (e.g., PHP or Lua) does it make any difference to > declare the function's return type as JSON or JSONB? JSONB is only for internal storage, for external representation you need JSON. > Now that I've actually written the question down it occurs to me that what I > really want to know is which data type (JSON or JSONB or maybe TEXT) has the > lowest overhead in terms of transformation and transmission at the PostgreSQL > protocol level. If you are returning JSON, so is JSON the best choice. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
