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From: sud <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Trigger usecase
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:46:32 +0530
Message-ID: <CAD=mzVU0rx4A0onfC4jHxZ7XreZrk9DNa9pFoGDOjPD1ZhfHgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

We have a streaming application (using apache flink and kafka) which
populates data in the tables of a postgres database version 15.4.

Now while loading transactions data we also get some reference data
information from source (for example customer information) and for these ,
we dont want to modify or override the existing customer data but want to
keep the old data with a flag as inactive and the new record should get
inserted with flag as active. So for such use case , should we cater this
inside the apache flink application code or should we handle this using
trigger on the table level which will execute on each INSERT and execute
this logic?

I understand trigger is difficult to debug and monitor stuff. But here in
this case , team mates is saying , we shouldn't put such code logic into a
streaming application code so should rather handle through trigger.

I understand, technically its possible bith the way, but want to understand
experts opinion on this and pros ans cons?

Regards
Sud

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