> Given this limited example I'd probably choose to model notifications as an > array on the user table. Then just "UPDATE user SET notifications = > array['a','b']::text WHERE user_id = 1; I'm hesitant to ditch the first normal form just to get around this. Anyway, there's actually extra data in the table that makes it hard to use an array: CREATE TABLE notifications ( user_id INT, type CHAR(1), threshold INT, some_options BOOLEAN, PRIMARY KEY (user_id, type) ); -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general