On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Eric Ongerth wrote:

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> On Apr 16, 7:24 am, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> always use "delete" cascade in conjunction with "delete-orphan".   It
>> doesnt make much sense to have delete-orphan only and not "delete"
>> cascade.
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> 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).



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