Personally, I would add an AIRCRAFT and a SEAT table:
CREATE TABLE aircraft (
id NUMBER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY
CONSTRAINT aircraft__id__pk PRIMARY KEY,
tail_number VARCHAR2(6)
NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT aircraft__tn__u UNIQUE
CONSTRAINT aircraft__tn_chk CHECK(
REGEXP_LIKE(
tail_number,
'[A-Z]\d{1,5}|[A-Z]\d{1,4}[A-Z]|[A-Z]\d{1,3}[A-Z]{2}'
)
),
manufacturer VARCHAR2(20)
NOT NULL,
model VARCHAR2(20)
NOT NULL,
airline_id CONSTRAINT aircraft__aid__fk REFERENCES airline(airline_id)
NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE seat (
id NUMBER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY
CONSTRAINT seat__id__pk PRIMARY KEY,
aircraft_id CONSTRAINT seat__aid__fk REFERENCES aircraft(id)
NOT NULL,
seat_row VARCHAR2(3)
NOT NULL,
seat_column NUMBER
NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT seat__aid_r_c__u UNIQUE (aircraft_id, seat_row, seat_column)
);
Then your flight table would reference the aircraft:
CREATE TABLE flight (
id NUMBER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY
CONSTRAINT flight__id__pk PRIMARY KEY,
aircraft_id CONSTRAINT flight__aid__fk REFERENCES aircraft(id)
NOT NULL
-- ...
);
And the ticket would reference a flight and a seat:
CREATE TABLE ticket (
id NUMBER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY
CONSTRAINT ticket__id__pk PRIMARY KEY,
flight_id CONSTRAINT ticket__fid__fk REFERENCES flight(id)
NOT NULL,
seat_id CONSTRAINT ticket__sid__fk REFERENCES seat(id)
NOT NULL,
-- ...
CONSTRAINT ticket__fid_sid__u UNIQUE (flight_id, seat_id)
);
Then you can never sell a seat that does not exist on an aircraft and do not need to count the maximum number of tickets and compare it to seats (and the seat has added attributes like its location on the plane that can be displayed on the ticket).
All you need then is to ensure the referential consistency that, for a ticket, the flight and the seat are on the same aircraft; which can be done with a trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER ticket_check_seat_on_flight
BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON ticket
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
is_valid NUMBER(1);
BEGIN
SELECT 1
INTO is_valid
FROM flight f
INNER JOIN seat s
ON (f.aircraft_id = s.aircraft_id)
WHERE f.id = :NEW.flight_id
AND s.id = :NEW.seat_id;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(
-20000,
'Flight and seat are on different aircraft.'
);
END;
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