If you find yourself needing an ORM, probably what you really need is some jsonb. Which maybe strict 3NF goes against, but I would ignore that. Good example is

If you find yourself needing an ORM, probably what you really need is some jsonb. Which maybe strict 3NF goes against, but I would ignore that. Good example is a "user settings" table that you're mostly just going to store and retrieve, such that splitting them into separate cols or tables doesn't help.