On 6/06/2011 8:59, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how do you store recurring events in a database?
>
> Selecting all events in a week/month should be fast (comming from an index).
>
> My solution looks like this:
>
> Table event:
>
> Columns: id, name, recurring, start_datetime, end_datetime
>
> recurring is weekly, monthly, yearly or NULL.
>
> end_datetime can be NULL (open end).
>
> Can you create an indexed view with infinite rows? I only want to index
> the last three year and the next three years.
>
> An other solution would be to fill a table with "serialized" events. The recurring
> events would be created and inserted into a table. This can only be done in a time frame
> like above (last three year, next three years). If a recurring event gets altered,
> all its serialized events need to be updated.
>
> Any feedback?
I have had success using the instructions at
https://github.com/bakineggs/recurring_events_for
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Troy Rasiah