Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > Here, that doesn't seem too likely. You could have a column that > contains 'tom' and ['tom'] and [['tom']] and [[['tom']]] and so forth > and they all get mapped onto the same bucket and you're sad. But > probably not.
Yeah, that might be a more useful way to think about it: is this likely to cause performance-critical collisions in practice? I agree that that doesn't seem like a very likely situation, even given that you might be using json for erratically-structured data. regards, tom lane