On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the past we prevented multiple invoices from the same vendor with
> identical numbers.
>
> If I remember correctly, some people complained and we have relaxed this
> limitation.
>
> I'm now thinking that we may want to have duplicates disabled by default,
> but we might want to offer an administrator access button in setup.pl to
> enable it. That way, the default operation will better fit expectations of
> accountants/ bookkeeper, with the ability to support countries where rules
> and/or execution are less strict, without the need to have mails on the
> users list explaining how to get into the database and drop specific
> constraints.
>
> Having an explicit (expert) setting like this also makes the situation
> more noticeable/explicit: a dropped constraint can go unnoticed for years.
>
> What do you say?
>
A unique constraint works well and scales well. Something like this would
have to be thought out very carefully.
I think one option would be an option at database creation time and a way
to disable. Disabling would effectively be one-way. With a unique
constraint, once you disable, you don't have a good way to re-enable.
> --
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>
> Erik.
>
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