Hi.
I'm not sure what the best subject is for this email, but here are the requirements: When all activities for a given product has status='DONE' then an entry in activity_product_log
should be created. This should be guaranteed somehow. If an activity for which there exists an entry in activity_product_log
is set to status='NOT_DONE', then the entry in activity_product_log
should be deleted.
Here's an example-schema:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS activity_product_log;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS activity;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS product;
CREATE TABLE product
(
id INTEGER primary key,
name varchar not null unique
);
CREATE TABLE activity
(
id serial primary key,
name varchar not null unique,
product_id integer not null references product(id),
status varchar NOT NULL,
CHECK (status IN ('NOT_DONE', 'DONE'))
);
CREATE TABLE activity_product_log
(
id serial primary key,
product_id integer not null references product(id),
created TIMESTAMP NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO product(id, name) VALUES(1, 'Horse'), (2, 'Fish');
INSERT INTO activity(name, product_id, status)
VALUES ('A1', 1, 'NOT_DONE'), ('A2', 1, 'NOT_DONE'), ('A3', 1, 'NOT_DONE'), ('A4', 1, 'NOT_DONE')
, ('A5', 2, 'NOT_DONE'), ('A6', 2, 'NOT_DONE')
;
UPDATE activity SET status = 'DONE' WHERE name = 'A1';
UPDATE activity SET status = 'DONE' WHERE name = 'A2';
UPDATE activity SET status = 'DONE' WHERE name = 'A3';
UPDATE activity SET status = 'DONE' WHERE name = 'A4'; -- Here an entry in activity_log should be created
I'm thinking about using constraint-triggers for this but will that actually guarantee the requirements? I'm worried about the last part of the requirement, if all activities for a product are ‘DONE’ but then gets toggled ‘NOT_DONE’ and ‘DONE’ “very fast”.
Is there a better way, using some extra tables to do bookkeeping can the have constraints ensuring this business-requirement?
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Andreas Joseph Krogh
CTO / Partner - Visena AS
Mobile: +47 909 56 963