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> On Jul 2, 2024, at 14:57, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> =
wrote:
> Using text rather than varchar() is a good suggestion.

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting stuffing them all into a text column =
with a delimiter, but storing them in a text *array* field, each email =
address one component of the array.=