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Postgres compatibility? Really? Reference? I want to believe but are not you comparing apples to oranges? Last time I checked the JSON datatype was not supported on Cockroach.

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CockroachDB explicitly aims to offer a Postgres-compatible interface. Is their homepage reference enough for that? https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/cockroachdb/ or https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/build-an-app-with-...

no, not even a JSON datatype is now supported. I cannot use a database without JSON for my use case https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2969 An compatible interface is not compatibility and JSON as an example is not the biggest magic stuff inside PostgreSQL.

Give the dudes time. Postgres has a lot of stuff.

JSONB support is on our 2.0 roadmap and is actively under development.

Roadmap: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/wiki/Roadmap

Confirmed Development (I see you already reference this issue above): https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2969

JSONB support is coming, fuck yeah!

https://github.com/cockroachdb/docs/issues/2143

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