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		rdtsc on June 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a MongoDB Clone in Postgres Or de-normalize and keep your data serialized but also keep an additional index of data you want to query.

rhizome on June 4, 2012 [–]

Serialized is already denormalized, you're talking about a kind of double-denormalization where you introduce metadata as a guide for the serialized-data queries. Spaghetti.

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