[Catalyst] flexible attributes on db objects

[Perrin Harkins]

On 6/8/07, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Comments? horrendous hackery? laziness? a landmine? ok in some cases?

It's pretty well covered by Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-Attribute-Value_model

I sometimes use this in places where I have to let end users add
attributes to objects, but the poor performance and lack of integrity
constraints make it a poor choice for anything else in my opinion.

- Perrin