Re: History-based (or logged) database.

Yes, I did. For just the simple updating, (not the
logging you are doing) NEW is what you want. But OLD is proper
for archiving/logging.

--elein

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:22:27PM +0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi Elein;
>
> Nope, OLD is correct. I track the OLD values and then use the view to
> combine those with the current ones. This allows the OLAP portions of the
> code to hit against *all* the data, while archiving old, outdated
> information in the archive table. It also allows deleted tuples to be
> tracked with the same trigger since a deleted row doesn't exactly have a NEW
> tuple :-) Maybe you misunderstand what I am trying to do?
>
> Best WIshes,
> Chris Travers