Sure, but if it’s orders of magnitude more than you’ll ever need, you’re just using way more storage than you need. That’s what I meant by being more explicit a

Sure, but if it’s orders of magnitude more than you’ll ever need, you’re just using way more storage than you need. That’s what I meant by being more explicit about your plan and using more predictable storage. As a basic example, you could also use integer (or bigint) and start by number things like 1000, 2000, 3000, etc. Now you know exactly how many slots between items you have, and can more easily query for cases where you’re running low on slots.