In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timestamp it. There are pl...

How do you update it to unoublish? Add another timestamp column and who’s the latest win or just set published_at to null?

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You wouldn’t store this information on the same table (unless you’re using a wide row db like dynamo/Cassandra). In a SQL world, you’d store version information in a separate table - one table for the HEAD state and another for history.

So, the history table have every column, but the user table has only user id and version, right?

user_history table user table

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