Issue

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if you have data stored as json in a column, you could query the data by

select * from TABLE where json_column['name'] = 'Bob'

select * from TABLE where parse_json(json_column::variant):name:varchar = 'Bob'

Are these equivalent in performance?

Solution

No, they are not equivalent in performance, although they use a very similar path to access the "name" field.

The first query can use metadata of JSON attributes, and you
may see a good partition pruning.
The second one will read all JSON data (whole partitions) and use
parse_json on the column before fetching the field.

In short, the first query is expected to be much faster on larger datasets.

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