On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Adrian Klaver <
adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 01/03/2013 07:38 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
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>> The middleware of the application needs to check this table when data
>> are
>> to be viewed in the UI and present only the current row contents. A
>> separate
>> view would display a history of changes for that row.
>>
>> All thoughts, suggestions, and recommendations based on your
>> expertise and
>> experience will be most welcome.
>
>
> As a matter of course I include fields to record the timestamp and user for insert of records and last update of record on my tables.
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> For a relatively simple solution see this blog post I put up this summer:
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http://aklaver.org/wordpress/2012/06/23/postgres-and-hstore/ >
> I have since expanded that to include updates by using TG_OP to determine the operation being done on the table.
>
> There is also pg_audit
> :
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https://github.com/jcasanov/pg_audit >
And keep in mind that kind of table tend to grow quickly, so you must use some strategy to purge old historical data or make your audit table partitioned...
I implemented the same think in our ERP a long time ago using partitioned approach, because its easy to purge old historical data.
Regards,