From: Sasha Pachev
Date: March 11 1999 9:46pm
Subject: Re: sort of defragmentation?
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Charles Kirby wrote:
> 
> Ah, that's what I wanted to hear.  But surely, if Mysql doesn't support
> foreign keys and triggers, what orphans could possibly result from
> deleting a line in the existing mysql?  Other than anything you knowingly
> set up yourself to specifically have a relationship from one table to
> another, is any relationship built-in with the keystone database?
> 
> Thanks, ck
> 

The tables are completely independent as far as the
database is concerned. You can delete one completely,
and the others will continue to exist peacefully, with
the exception of the  queries that reference the deleted
table of course. So you have to do the work yourself.
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