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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:37:37+00:00

I have a User table in my Postgres database. In my application, the User

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I have a User table in my Postgres database. In my application, the User can have various allowed websites. My question is: which is more disk space efficent, having a many-to-many relationship between a user and a url or storing the array in JSON in a column in the User table. Essintially, how much space does postgres use to store table headers.

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    which is more disk space efficent, having a many-to-many relationship between a user and a url or storing the array in JSON in a column in the User table.

    Updating a many-to-many relationship means an UPDATE (and/or DELETE?) statement.

    Updating a JSON array stored in a database tables means:

    1. SELECTing the data to get it out of the database, to the application
    2. Manipulating the data in the application
    3. UPDATE statement to write the updated JSON array back to the table

    Which is simpler/more efficient to you?

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