IMHO, prettification is useful only for debugging. It would be nice to have a session variable for the debug output with spaces, new lines and indentation.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ilya I. Ashchepkov <koc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm sorry about sending email several times. I haven't understand, was it > > sent by gmail or not. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:30 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On 9/24/2014 12:23 AM, Ilya I. Ashchepkov wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Is spaces is necessary in text presentation of JSONB? > >>> In my data resulting text contains ~12% of spaces. > >> > >> > >> can you show us an example of this? > > > > > > One record > > # select data from events.data limit 1; > > {"can": {"lls": {"1": 76.4}, "mhs": 4674.85, "rpm": 168.888, "speed": 74, > > "runned": 166855895, "fuel_consumption": 74213.5}, "crc": 10084, "gps": > 1, > > "gsm": {"signal": 100}, "lls": {"1": 733, "2": 717}, "used": 19, "speed": > > 87.4, "valid": 1, "msg_id": 89, "runned": 72.75, "boot_no": 256, > "digital": > > {"in": {"1": 1, "2": 0, "3": 0, "4": 0, "5": 0, "6": 0}, "out": {"1": 0, > > "2": 0}}, "visible": 20, "ignition": 1, "location": {"course": 265, > > "altitude": 143, "latitude": 55.127888997395836, "longitude": > > 80.8046142578125}, "protocol": 4, "coldstart": 1, "timesource": > "terminal", > > "receiver_on": 1, "external_power": 28.07, "internal_power": 4.19} > > > > Whitespacis percents in this record: > > # select array_length(regexp_split_to_array(data::text, text ' '), > > 1)*100./length(data::text) from events.data limit 1; > > ?column? > > --------------------- > > 12.3417721518987342 > > > > Whitespace in test data > > # select count(*),avg(array_length(regexp_split_to_array(data::text, > text ' > > '), 1)*100./length(data::text)) from events.data ; > > count | avg > > --------+--------------------- > > 242222 | 12.3649234646118312 > > > For jsonb (unlike json), data is not actually stored as json but in a > binary format. It will generally be much larger than the text > representation in fact but in exchange for that many operations will > be faster. The spaces you see are generated when the jsonb type is > converted to text for output. I actually think it's pretty reasonable > to want to redact all spaces from such objects in all cases where > converstion to text happens (output functions, xxxto_json, etc) > because ~12% savings are nothing to sneeze at when moving large > documents in and out of the database. > > On the flip side, a more verbose prettification would be pretty nice > too. I wonder if a hypothetical GUC is the best way to control this > behavior... > > merlin > -- С уважением, Ащепков Илья koc...@gmail.com