Re: PostgreSQL as a triple store

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:57:32 +0200
Jimmy Thrasibule <thrasibule(dot)jimmy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > Is there a reason why hstore or json is not an option? That may work a lot
> > better than this approach.
>
> I don't want to move away from SQL common features so I can have a
> test environment using SQLite and deploy on PostgreSQL. This approach
> looks elegant and simple to me. Using a new table per attribute type
> or even per attribute for the values, I can easily index them for
> quick lookups.

Couple of things to keep in mind:
* SQLLite and PostgreSQL are not 100% compatable. It's cheap and easy to
set up PostgreSQL for testing/development, so it seems silly (to me) to test
on something that might behave differently than the production environment.

* Any setup where the application can execute DDL is a potential security
concern. If the code can manipulate tables then a bug in the code can
allow an accidental or malicious user to quickly and easily destroy data.

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