Cross-posted from “What would be the best way to store the country of a user in SQL?” by @[email protected] in [email protected]


I use Gorm. This is the current code:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"gorm.io/driver/sqlite"
	"gorm.io/gorm"
)

type Env struct {
	DB     *gorm.DB
	Logger *log.Logger
}

type User struct {
	ID           uint
	Username     string
	Name         string
	Email        string
	PasswordHash string
	Country      string //should probably be a foreign key of another table
}

func initDB() {
	env := &Env{}
	db, err := gorm.Open(sqlite.Open("gorm.db"), &gorm.Config{})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Error opening database: %v", err)
		return
	}
	env.DB = db
	env.DB.AutoMigrate(&User{})

}

func main() {
	initDB()
}

As you can see in the comment in the code, I assume the best way would be to have a table of countries and then assign each user to one via a foreign key. However, it seems a bit cumbersome to manually create a list of all countries. Is there a better way to do this?

  • @[email protected]
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    125 days ago

    GPS: Galactic Positioning System

    Just suppose you are not selling the software outside of the galaxy and you will have to update your database (and transform and migrate all the data) when the 2 galaxy positioning system is formed.

    • Björn Tantau
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      25 days ago

      Ugh, this will be chaos when we crash into Andromeda. I’m not looking forward to the next billions of years.

      • @[email protected]
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        124 days ago

        Just complete your KRAs beforehand and hand over the project to the Junior Dev, before then.