On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Rhys Stewart <rhys.stewart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > type). That being said, I would appreciate that any further questions I have > not be responded to by single line emails extolling the virtues of properly > designed schemata, normalization or the like.</minor rant precedes> Well, I would appreciate getting shorter replies that are to the point and don't rely on standing on soap boxes and using exercises in polemics to make their point, but I probably won't get that. The fact is, if your data is in that format, then the schema is working against you, and everything you do is going to be much harder than changing your schema to something that makes some more sense. Next time I'll hold your hand a bit more, but yesterday I was very far out of it (I'm not exactly 100% today either) with a bad head cold. Now, should we have more exchanges to determine who can use the most flowery of speech or should we talk pgsql and schema changes?