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Re:Mistakes Beginners Make When Working with Databases by Someone1234 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @12:28PM (#11863421)
Fair enough. Still an ugly hack, and you're still over stuffing a column.

It does avoid some issues with string passing which is nice, but that's just about all it solves.

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Re:Mistakes Beginners Make When Working with Databases by endymi0n on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:01PM (#11863705)
On top, arrays in PG don't support foreign key constraints and in this way make your model weaker. We do use them too, but in well defined, pretty rare circumstances.
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