On 2/16/23 10:28, Dominique Devienne wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:51 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>> wrote:

    You have two tables with list in their name, so are rows deleted from
    both. Just to be clear enity_list should actually be entity_list?

    Also how are entity and enity_list related?


I have to confess that your questions surprise me a bit.
I thought the model was pretty clear from the SQL.
We have two entities, Foo (my entity table), and another Bar (my entity_list table), with Bar reference 0 or more Foos, recording which ones it references in an association table.

    Are the values for the name field in entity and enity(entity)_list the
    same for a given entity?


The name of Foo and Bar are completely independent.

     > transfering the old entity name to it thanks to an UPDATE on
     > entity_name, thus preserving the old name.

    How?
    Again how would you determine where the action started?


Deleting a Foo cascades to the _member assoc-table.
If the cascade is SET NULL, then I can have an UPDATE TRIGGER on _member.
I no longer care where the action started.

What happens if an entity_list value is deleted?

Are you going to replicate the above for it to?

If so something like what Brad White suggested would seem  to  simpler.

Or, create a history table where rows deleted from entity_list_member are moved to.


     > Then an INSERT trigger on entity could locate any (indexed)
    "stashed"
     > entity names in that extra non-FK column in entity_list_member,

    How would it locate it if  the name that defined the
    FK(entity(name)) was NULL?


In the extra non-FK column I mentioned explicitly, in the _member assoc-table.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.kla...@aklaver.com



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