[quietbritishjim]

The "this" was referring to dynamically building queries (the GP comment by me) in Ecto (the parent comment by QuinnWilton). What you've said is a non-sequitur in the context of this little discussion. My whole original point is that raw SQL isn't right in all situations, and you appear to be arguing that I just use SQL instead.

[inferiorhuman]

I can't speak to every ORM or database interface in existence but ActiveRecord will happily handle Postgres arrays and let you use the built-in array functions just handily without having to write queries by hand. Ecto is less elegant, but you can still finangle some arrays with it.

As far as views are concerned, I don't know what to tell you. Sure, you'll probably have to craft the view itself by hand. The result is that you can then use most abstractions of your choosing on top of it though.

[bonesss]

There's also the possibility of using automation to create, update, and manage views. That lets your app be 'dynamic' with regards to new data and new datatypes, but also preserves the performance, debugging, segregation, and maintenance benefits of the underlying DB.