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(TimescaleDB engineer) Really curious about finding out more about your reservations about the updated schema. All criticisms welcome.

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Thanks, as I say our use case may be too odd to be worth supporting, but effectively we're trying to add a basic metrics (prom/ad-hoc) feature to an existing product (using Postgres) with an existing sort of opinionated "ORM"/toolkit for inserting/querying data.

Because of that and the small scale required, the choice of table-per-metric would be a tough fit and I think a single table with JSONB and maybe some partial indexes is going to work a lot better for us. It would just be nice if we could somehow code in our schema mapping and use the supported extension, but I get it may be too baked-into the implementation.

Anyway, overall we're quite happy with TimescaleDB!

I see, that makes a whole lot of sense. This is an interesting use-case. It actually may be possible to use some of the aggregates provided by the extension even with a different schema. If you are interested in exploring further, my username on slack is `mat` and my email is the same @timescale.com

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