[Baypiggies] How to store versioned objects

[Tung Wai Yip]

Not having much experience myself but it sounds like you want to look at  
temporal database.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database


Wai Yip


On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:38:51 -0700, Max Slimmer <max at theslimmers.net>  
wrote:

> I have an application where the user creates and saves business
> objects in a database. The objects are like invoices, header and
> detail lines possibly some other attachments. When the object is saved
> I want to create a version, and then should the user make changes I
> would save these as a subsequent version such that when I retrieve the
> object I normally get the latest version (along with some version id).
> If the user desires he can get a specific previous version or see
> history of changes including by who and when they were made.  Keep in
> mind that these objects are not very large, like an invoice :-).
>
> Do you know of any libraries that might help with this. I suppose I
> could use some version control system and a mechanism to name the
> object and possibly store some of the meta data in db.
>
> Thanks,
>
> max
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