Well, what came to my head pretty quickly when reading this was "there should be separate tables";) Thank you for the article, I didn't know about the statistic configuration in postgres. I can use your lesson straight away, as I'm desining a database for online gaming platform and now I'm sure that there should be separate tables for currently running and finished games:)

Also: very clear and easy to follow language, props to the author. Cheers.

Hi HN community, author of the post here. Let me know please if you have any questions, comments, or feedback!

It’s amazing how many of those types of problems are easily avoided or solved with event sourcing and CQRS.