Re: Schema design question

From: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Schema design question
Date: 2008-03-31 17:34:24
Message-ID: b35603930803311034h16ab5623q724d0d176ff890df@mail.gmail.com
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On 29/03/2008, Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm working on a project which requires me to keep track of objects,
> each of which can have an arbitrary number of attributes. Although
> there will be many attributes that an object can have, the data types
> of those attributes won't be all that varried (int, float, text,
> boolean, date, etc.).

And a somewhat unorthodox suggestion for the list ... would it
be worthwhile considering a different storage mechanism all
together, like maybe an LDAP directory type of thing? The query
language is admittedly very limited.

Cheers,
Andrej

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