Re: Encountered an error

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:16:33AM +0530, Shaan Repswal wrote:

> I am new to databases and am a novice to programming in general.

Don't worry.

> @Karsten - I know, I got the feeling that the design felt awry as well. The
> database will be on the local machine. And the client side will have the
> code to error check the column names being added and also if there already
> is a column by this name or not.

You can add a second table (pseudo code)

inventory_detail
pk serial primary key
fk_inventory integer foreign key (inventory.pk)
detail_name text
detail_value text

and then - instead of creating columns in table inventory -
add rows to the inventory_detail table where .detail_name
would hold what otherwise would be the column name of the new
column in inventory and .detail_value the value you would
have put into the new column in table inventory. The
fk_inventory column would hold the primary key of the row in
the inventory table this inventory_detail row belongs to.

Just a suggestion.

Karsten
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