It does when you retrieve data based on those dependancies. If you're trying
to connect 2 records and the middle record has been deleted then you're out
of luck unless you've made updates.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Nested Set Model


Andy Matthews wrote:
> If you deleted an element, any children (and children of children) would
> become orphans. So you'd at least have to change the association of the
> child of the deleted record.

True for the adjacency list model. But the nested set model does
not have any problems with gaps.

Jochem


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