Postgres jsonb 'NOT contains' operator

Question

I'm experimenting with postgres jsonb column types, and so far so good. One common query I'm using is like this:

select count(*) from jsonbtest WHERE attributes @> '{"City":"Mesa"}'; 

How do I reverse that? Is there a different operator or is it simply used as

select count(*) from jsonbtest WHERE NOT attributes @> '{"City":"Mesa"}'; 

Answer 1

Two way, you can test any json(b) value

• the ->> operator extract value as text. But this operation slow, if you will use the value only test
• the @> operator test any json(b) contain any json(b). This is a quick but you are not tested NOT option.

Simply and quick way:

NOT (attribute @> '{"City":"Mesa"}'::jsonb) 

I've change attribute->>'City' <> 'Mesa' to NOT (attribute @> '{"City":"Mesa"}'::jsonb) and my ~2.000.000 rows query result time changed 45secs to 25secs.