[Typo3-dev] Foreign keys anyone?

Thorsten Kahler thorsten.kahler at dkd.de
Mon Sep 13 16:48:33 CEST 2004


Hi Arne,

your example isn't very convincing, as DB entries aren't deleted  
physically but set to deleted. (That's for what the "deleted" flag is  
used). But of course this is just the default behaviour ;-)

Thorsten


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:08:15 +0200, Arne Skjaerholt <skjaerho at cpi.no>  
wrote:

>> and compare to when TYPO3 was 'born'.
> Ah yes. I forgot that FK constraints are a fairly new addition to MySQL.
>
> And in my opinion adding FK constraints would be a very good idea seeing
> how that eliminates the possibility that (for example) a user
> accidentaly gets deleted from the DB and leaving a ton of posts and
> pages in the DB without an owner (which I think would screw up things to
> no end as far as I can tell).
>
> Arne
> :wq
>
>





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