On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Madison Kelly <linux@alteeve.com> wrote:
> The 'cust_id' references the customer that the given data belongs to. The
> reason for this "data bucket" (does this structure have a proper name?) is
> that the data I need to store on a give customer is quite variable and
> outside of my control. As it is, there is about 400 different variable/value
> pairs I need to store per customer.
For you very specific case, I recommend you check out contrib/hstore:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html