William Garrison wrote:
> I've never worked with a database with arrays, so I'm curious...
>
> + Efficiency: To return the set_ids for an Item, I could return an array
> back to my C# code instead of a bunch of rows with integers. That's
> probably faster, right?
You should look in to the contrib modules intagg and intarray.
In particular contrib/intagg/README.int_aggregate discusses an example
quite similar to what you're proposing.
Short summary: Seems like a win for very static data, a loss for very dynamic
data.
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