Re: Arrays Question? -Simon Moses - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: Arrays Question? -Simon Moses
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.56.0409251433130.15566@leary.csoft.net
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In response to Arrays Question? -Simon Moses  (Simon Moses <ks_moses@yahoo.com>)
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Simon Moses wrote:

> i want to use arrays(like int4[]) in my tables insted
> of taking many int4 fields.

In general this isn't a great idea.  You lose a lot of flexibility for no
real good reason.  Combining these field just obscures what's going on and
makes it more difficult to work with them.  The only possible reason I
could see for doing this is if you had an outrageous number of fields
(more than the postgresql limit), but that suggests a more drastic
redesign instead of just stuffing them into arrays.

What do you think the possible advantages are?

Kris Jurka


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