One drawback of the current design is that all the tags and all the fields are stored in a JSONB structure. JSON is a great format if you want to have an open format where you can add new fields as necessary and even have more structured data than what you have in plain columns, …
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Using prepared statements through the SPI
In the previous post, you could see how to use the server programming interface to execute statements that modified the database. This was done by creating a statement containing the all the data that needed to be inserted, but that also meant generating a string from already parsed data, which seems like a waste of …
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The Server Programming Interface
In the previous post you could see how to parse a packet and construct a complex data type from it by creating a set-returning function. This function returned a table of rows, but it did not insert it into the database. In this post you will see how to insert the data into the database …
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