What's the best way to store changes to database records that require approval before being visible?

Question

I need to store user entered changes to a particular table, but not show those changes until they have been viewed and approved by an administrative user. While those chang

Answer 1

I would create a table with an flag and create a view like

 CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW AS 

  SELECT * FROM my_table where approved = 1

It can help to separate dependencies between the aprovement and the queries. But may be is not the best idea if need to make updates to the view.

Moving records might have some performance considerations. But Partitioned tables could do something quite similar.