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		ganderzz on March 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres as a graph database Hey, author here! Thanks for the feedback! I went back and forth with having `data` being a JSONB field or VARCHAR, but ended up with VARCHAR to show that `nodes` don't have to be anything crazy. Really `nodes` is just a standard table you'd see in any old SQL database, and what makes it a "graph" is the `edges`/relationship table.

pphysch on April 3, 2023 [–]

Are JSON fields "crazy"? That seems like a myth that should be dispelled. To me, "crazy" is making your `data` field unstructured text.

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