Text-based JSON functions - Amazon Redshift
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Text-based JSON functions

The following functions parse JSON values as VARCHAR. For parsing JSON, we recommend you instead use the following functions, which parse JSON values as SUPER. Amazon Redshift parses SUPER values more efficiently than VARCHAR.