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		mcny on Aug 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Good programmers worry about data structures and t... Speaking of data structures, I am curious what you guys think of the Entity Attribute Value model. I worked on an e-commerce "platform" that used EAV and I always struggled to write queries to find anything I needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...

hipadev23 on Aug 16, 2024 [–]

It’s basically the standard. How else do you add arbitrary key/values to entities? You either normalize into EAV, Map column, or a pair of Array columns.

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