add some notes about the dating conundrum

readme.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ route baseline
 * copy some period of actual sales and increment all the dates to serve as a baseline forecast
 
 TO-DO:
+- [ ] join to period tables to populate season; requires variance number oof table joins, based on howmany date functions there are 🙄
 - [ ] setup something to fill in sql parameters to do testing on the function
 
 running problem list

setup_sql/schema.sql

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ CREATE TABLE fc.target_meta (
     ,dtype      text
     ,mastcol    text
     ,appcol     text
+    ,dateref    text
 );
 
 --ALTER TABLE fc.target_meta DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS target_meta_pk;
@@ -26,3 +27,4 @@ COMMENT ON COLUMN fc.target_meta.pretty IS 'the presentation name of the column'
 COMMENT ON COLUMN fc.target_meta.dtype IS 'data type of the sales table column';
 COMMENT ON COLUMN fc.target_meta.mastcol IS 'associated field from the master data table if it is different (oseas would refer to ssyr in fc.perd)';
 COMMENT ON COLUMN fc.target_meta.appcol IS 'supply column name to be used for application variables - (specifcy the order date column)';
+COMMENT ON COLUMN fc.target_meta.dateref IS 'reference to the relevant hard coded perd table column for dates';