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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Accommodating alternative column values
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Christophe Pettus wrote:

> If you are absolutely 100% sure there will never be any metadata
> associated with each email address (like a "valid" flag), you can use
> TEXT[] array to store them. Otherwise, it's best to move them into a table
> with a foreign key back to the owning record.

Christophe,

Using text rather than varchar() is a good suggestion.

Thank you,

Rich