Rafal Krzewski wrote:
>
> David Ramsey wrote:
>
> > I don't think your arguments for what you propose are good at all except
> > in databases that do not support a cascading action of one sort or
> > another. In fact, I am very certain that such "granularity" will lead to
> > referential integrity errors as mistakes are made in specifying deletion
> > chains by programmers.
>
> David,
> you are missing one thing here - Fedor is proposing incorporating the
> cascading delete code into Torque, which is an automated code genereator.
> The deletion chains will be generated for you automatically and they
> will be correct when two coditions are met:
>
> 1. your db schema is OK
> 2. one person gets it right one time (writing the generator)
>
I got the distinct impression that Fedor was opposed to the use of
cascade at all but that may just be my misinterpretation of what was
said. If the db engine allows cascades and this can be specified so that
Torque takes advantage of it, then it should work fine.
Thanks!
David Ramsey
> Rafal
>
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> Rafal Krzewski
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