> The only extra thing it does is ensure the data is valid JSON, Even that's actually not quite fair, it has special syntax for queries within the JSON (->> et

> The only extra thing it does is ensure the data is valid JSON, Even that's actually not quite fair, it has special syntax for queries within the JSON (->> etc), and a bunch of functions: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.h...