PostgreSQL® offers two types of data types to handle JSON data, JSON and JSONB. This doc showcases how to index a JSONB column with a GIN index.

PostgreSQL® offers two types of data types to handle JSON data, JSON and JSONB, and provides several different ways to check if a value/field from a JSON document:

PostgreSQL® offers two types of data types to handle JSON data:

• JSON stores the JSON as text, performing a validation on the correctness of the JSON syntax
• JSONB optimizes the JSON storage in a custom binary format. Therefore, on top of validating the correctness of the JSON format, time is spent to properly parse and store the content.