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Sep 4 2019

How to store large JSON in PostgreSQL with Rails Attributes API

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How to store large JSON in PostgreSQL with Rails Attributes API
If you store large objects in the database (such as JSON), for example, data for big reports, then this can take up a lot of space. To reduce the size of data, you can compress and store it in binary form.
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