Re: sort of defragmentation?

[Charles Kirby]

Great, that simplifies things!  I had a lot of trouble with Unify5, where
UPDATEs or DELETEs would fail, because of the dependencies.

ck

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Sasha Pachev wrote:

> 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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