James Robinson <jlrobins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > That said -- anyone stepping up to claiming using 'em? Are these things > seen as against the data normalization grain? One strike against 'em is the fairly high overhead involved --- a composite value is stored as effectively its own tuple, so there's 28 or so bytes of overhead for each one. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq