If you are only after storage (leaving aside querying, indexing, ...) a simple JSON column [1] could do. The advantage being portability between databases. I've used this to as simple key-value store of data associated with a row. regards robert
[1] http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/core/types.html#marshal-json-strings On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Andreas Jung <zopyxfil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using Postgres 9.1, SqlAlchemy 0.8. > > I need to store information like > > [ > [10, 'liters', 'tea'], > [20, 'milliliters', 'salt'], > ] > > as one column into Postgres. > > What is the best way to do this? Of course I use a second table with a 1:N > relationship.... > I am thinking about using the Postgres Array type for this...is there a > better option? > Right now there are numeric and string values to be stored. I can of course > convert numeric values to strings if needed. > > Any options? > > Andreas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sqlalchemy/-/9jnn5iZY68IJ. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
