Deferred datastring column for insane Participant query speedup #504
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By deferring the datastring column, we can skip loading in of the trial data JSON cells (which are generally massive), and only query them into a model on their first explicit reference from a Participant object. See here for more.
This cut my many-row queries on the Participants table down from 40+ seconds each to literally under 1. yay