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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Michał Kłeczek <[email protected]>
Cc: Thiemo Kellner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Lookup tables
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:20:53 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwYKGwnQpRSz0Hep3OTG-WXAn0RpPAKL1wsz2dcp9K=ELA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Michał Kłeczek <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On 4 Feb 2025, at 18:27, Thiemo Kellner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >  Unless the lookup table is actually a check constraint one can use to
> populate dropdown boxes in an interface.
>
> That is even worse because it ceases being transactional and users might
> select something different than what they see on the screen.
>

What is the process flow for this happening?  How big a bug needs to exist
in the system for something bad to happen as opposed to some kind of “value
not found” error and a refresh with the correct matching values showing up
in the UI?

David J.

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