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From: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Accommodating alternative column values
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:50:27 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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> On Jul 2, 2024, at 14:47, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way
> to accommodate multiple email addresses other than entering both with a
> forward slash separating them in the varchar(64) email address column?

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.

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