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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Creating JSON Values
In the previous post, you could see how to create set-returning functions that returns several rows of a table and we returned rows consisting of the timestamp, the metric, and two JSONB values: one for the tags and one for the fields. There were, however, no coverage of what JSONB is, how it differs from JSON, and how to construct them in your code. This post is going to answer those questions.