Re: Arrays vs separate tables

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-10-20T12:55:33Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Mon, 20 Oct 2025, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

> * Simplicity: If a set of values is always fetched together and updated
>  together, you might as well treat it as a unit and not split it over
>  multiple tables

> The second may be relevant for you. If you always display and edit the
> phone numbers of a contact together and your frontend makes it easier to
> edit an array than a subset of rows from a table, you might just stuff
> them into a table and ignore "purity".

Peter,

Thank you. That's my use case.

Regards,

Rich