Vanity columns in join tables

Today as I was looking at a table in DynamoDB via the AWS console. This table is basically a queue of items for a particular user to look at or dismiss, and right now it only has two key columns: one for the user, and one for the item.

It struck me that it would be worthwhile to add a few extra columns to this table just to make administration and debugging a little easier. Namely, we could add the name of the user and the name of the item. At worst the tradeoff is that the read/write throughput for the table would be a little higher.