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Soft deletion makes a database worse by bleeding deletion logic into every query and rendering foreign keys mostly useless.
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- Brandur Leach Software engineer at River, previously at Stripe
The first is that soft deletion logic bleeds out into all parts of your code.
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↗Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth Itbrandur.org
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