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When do you actually use JSONB columns? Trying to find the line between flexibility and "this should've been relational"

Working on a new feature and genuinely torn on this one. We need to store form responses where the form structure is user-defined—different customers have different fields, field types vary, some are required, some aren't. The JSONB approach is tempting: store the whole response

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