On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Eric Ongerth wrote:
> > > > On Apr 16, 7:24 am, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> always use "delete" cascade in conjunction with "delete-orphan". It >> doesnt make much sense to have delete-orphan only and not "delete" >> cascade. > > Oh wow. That clears up a few things for me. I don't remember ever > seeing this (or at least I don't remember taking this sense of things > away after reading) in the documentation. Maybe I developed a blind > spot back around 3.something and never got past it? I have simply > been avoiding delete-orphan although I looked forward to figuring out > how to use it without errors some day. I think this was the key fact > that I missed, even though as you pointed out it's kind of the only > way that makes sense. it *could* make sense as this thing that will scan a whole set of referenced entities for a link, but thats just not what we have implemented right now (and also im less certain about what the real use case there is). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
