alt Hacker NewsI've given up on soft delete -- the nail in the coffin for me was my customers' legal requirements that data is fully deleted, not archived. It never worked that well anyways. I never had a successful restore from a large set of soft-deleted rows.
I've given up on soft delete -- the nail in the coffin for me was my customers' legal requirements that data is fully deleted, not archived. It never worked that well anyways. I never had a successful restore from a large set of soft-deleted rows.
> customers' legal requirements that data is fully deleted
Strange. I've only ever heard of legal requirements preventing deletion of things you'd expect could be fully deleted (in case they're needed as evidence at trial or something).