Issues with Schema bid table about pet-caring

[joanneong]

@kexiaowen

1. Thinking from the angle of the ER diagram, I think ultimately the bid table will have the primary keys of multiple tables - pet and account in particular. This is because bid is beginning to feel more and more like a relationship (something akin to the contract we learnt in class during entity-relation lecture). So I agree that we should have pet_name, but also owner as well (which we can say that the bidder is referencing, rather than account).

2. I believe we had this discussion previously, and our answer to that was to add a new column to the bid table, namely status which will have three possible values: fail, success, and pending. I think this train of thought is still fairly reasonable, so maybe you'll want to follow this instead.

[joanneong]

Discussed in person.