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On 12/23/24 07:53, Divyansh Gupta JNsThMAudy wrote:
> Hii Community,
> 
> I need to provide a support for some functionality for my application 
> for that I need to store 50 key value pair set, so I am in a dilemma, 
> weather I create 50 new columns of int2 data type each column will 

This is unclear, I am trying to figure out you go from '50 key value 
pair set' to '50 new columns of int2'.

In other words how 50 pairs turn into 50 columns?

Then there is the question of why 50 keys per row in the first place?


> contain value of a specific key or should I go with JSONB data type with 
> 50 key value pair, the table on which I am going to do that all contains 
> 1 Billion rows of data and have 84 hash partitions, I have gone through 
> multiple articles some of them mentioned it's a good approach to create 
> 50 new columns and some states that creating one JSONB would be best 
> that's why I need your help to move forward, also I am ready to make 
> H-Store instead of JSONB if it provides better performance.
> Please help me to comes out from that dilemma.
> 
> Regards,
> Divyansh Gupta,
> Database Administrator

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