</para>

</note>

<para>

In addition to those operators common to both types, some additional

operators exist only for <type>jsonb</type>, as shown

The standard comparison operators shown in <xref

linkend="functions-comparison-table"> are available for

<type>jsonb</type>, but not for <type>json</type>. They follow the

ordering rules for btree operations outlined at <xref

linkend="json-indexing">.

</para>

<para>

Some further operators also exist only for <type>jsonb</type>, as shown

in <xref linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">.

Many of these operators can be indexed by

<type>jsonb</> operator classes. For a full description of

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><literal>=</literal></entry>

<entry><type>jsonb</type></entry>

<entry>Are the two JSON values equal?</entry>

<entry><literal>'[1,2,3]'::jsonb = '[1,2,3]'::jsonb</literal></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><literal>@&gt;</literal></entry>

<entry><type>jsonb</type></entry>