On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Madison Kelly <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The 'cust_id' references the customer that the given data belongs to. The > reason for this "data bucket" (does this structure have a proper name?) is > that the data I need to store on a give customer is quite variable and > outside of my control. As it is, there is about 400 different variable/value > pairs I need to store per customer. For you very specific case, I recommend you check out contrib/hstore: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html