### Problem Currently, the `user_metadata` column is stored as plain text (TEXT type), which: 1. Requires parsing/stringifying JSON for every read/write operation. Has worse performance 2. Doesn't provide native JSON validation at the database level ### Solution Changing the column type to `jsonb` would: 1. Provide native JSON support in PostgreSQL (As I know, mysql also supports json since v5.7) 2. Enable more efficient querying of nested metadata fields 3. Allow indexing specific metadata fields if needed