Re: "Shared strings"-style table

> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Seamus Abshere wrote:
> >> Theoretically / blue sky, could there be a table or column type that
> >> transparently handles "shared strings" like this, reducing size on disk
> >> at the cost of lookup overhead for all queries?
> >> (I guess maybe it's like TOAST, but content-hashed and de-duped and not
> >> only for large objects?)

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017, at 01:29 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> What was described is exactly what relations and Foreign Keys are for.

hi Melvin, appreciate the reminder. Our issue is that we have 300+
columns and frequently include them in the SELECT or WHERE clauses... so
traditional normalization would involve hundreds of joins.

That's why I ask about a new table or column type that handles basic
translation and de-duping transparently, keeping the coded values
in-table.