When applying to round applicants typically answer some questions. Questions and answers are stored in metadata column of round_applications table.
This model builds main.application_answers table where each row contains question + answer + question_type triplets and all id information needed to recover who authored the answer for which round etc.
It could be more space efficient to have two separate tables questions/answers so we don't repeat question text for each row, but current way is easier to query.
When applying to round applicants typically answer some questions. Questions and answers are stored in
metadatacolumn ofround_applicationstable.This model builds
main.application_answerstable where each row containsquestion + answer + question_typetriplets and allidinformation needed to recover who authored the answer for which round etc.It could be more space efficient to have two separate tables
questions/answersso we don't repeat question text for each row, but current way is easier to query.