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> Postgres admittedly cheated a bit at first with the basic JSON support, validation of JSON but then storing it in a text field didn't quite make it a full document database.

Did anybody claim it was back then?

> Being a compressed format

I'd argue its a structured format, rather than a compressed format. I.e. it allows traversal without (re-)parsing the json from text. But most of the time the jsonb version won't be (meaningfully) smaller.



Hi Andres... I think I did back then ;)

Though to be fair, yes the PostgreSQL has never officially said it's a full document database to my knowledge.




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