Can we make it possible to store tags in seperate table?

[niels-numbers]

| Bug? | no
| New Feature? |yes
| Framework | Laravel
| Framework version | 8.12
| Package version | 12.0
| PHP version | ^8.0

Actual Behaviour

Tags are stored in tags column of Audit Model

Expected Behaviour

I would like to be able to store tags in a seperate table, because when multiple tags are inside "tags" column filtering using SQL becomes very slow since one cannot use indexing.

Possible Solutions

Instead of directly calling create on the implementation at

laravel-auditing/src/Drivers/Database.php

Line 19 in 5659c73

return call_user_func([$implementation, 'create'], $model->toAudit());

one could use a UserCreate service that is called (just as we have the resolver services). In this service class, only the create method is called.

Thus the UserCreate service could be overwritten in the configs (just as the resolvers). People could then choose freely if they would like to store the tags in a different table inside their custom UserCreate service.

If you agree with this small change, I would like to create the MR.

[MortenDHansen]

It's a pretty good idea. I imagine it would make for a significant improvement when querying/filtering by tags on very large table.

[idoomguy]

Is there any update on this matter? We have a sizable project, and the audit table contains millions of records. Therefore, searching using LIKE is an extremely time-consuming task.

[MortenDHansen]

Is there any update on this matter? We have a sizable project, and the audit table contains millions of records. Therefore, searching using LIKE is an extremely time-consuming task.

Yes. It will happen. But I can't put a date on it yet