Hello Ryan, > Is it going to have implications in > that only "changed" fields are persisted?
Yes, that is the original purpose of this flag. > So in an insert or update > statement only changed fields will updated? Yes, the main reason is this: In order to profit from DDL DEFAULT values within the database, only those values should be inserted / updated that a user really specified for insert / update. > I'll keep thinking about this. > I can see it would make it easy to get unexpected behavior if the internals > start getting tweaked. It would also wreak havoc with optimistic locking if > I get it wrong. Yes :-) Tampering with these flags always means (or: should mean) you know what you're doing...
