On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:34:20AM +0100, Thom Brown wrote: > Thanks David and Jeff. > > I can see your point. The provided link might actually be useful, > although I think I'd make some changes to it. Good :) It's not meant to be holy writ, just a way to see how you might approach this problem without getting the EAV monkey on your back. That monkey slowly turns into an 800-lb gorilla, and then grows very quickly, crushing your app. > I wouldn't have trouble data-mining such a structure for individual > questionnaire results. The planner will be shrugging its shoulders, > but I haven't actually tested that solution with many massive > questionnaires for its query performance. > > I pretty much have my answer. Thanks for your input guys. Happy to help :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
