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From: Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Lookup tables
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 22:44:19 +0100
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Am Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 10:41:38PM +0100 schrieb Thiemo Kellner:

> >> 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.
>
> I might see what you want to point out. E.g. the table is COLOURS. The rec with id 1 is RED, the one with id 2 is BLUE, 3 is GREE and so on. Now you load these values into the dropdown box that sports RED, BLUE, GREE and so on. While someone selects GREE, there is a maintenance release changing GREE to YELLOW. So when that someone sends the selection by id to the backend, not GREE is selected but YELLOW.

Yep, that's what I meant and which I never thought of before.

Karsten
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