On Wed, 14 May 2008, Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not really :-).  I was just looking at the simplest possible thing that could
> work.  I've looked at versioned/temporal databases.  But you probably
> can't go there since it definitely adds a lot of complexity to your app
> and queries.  Are you able to change your representation of "deleted"
> rows?  e.g., can you have an 
>
>      is_deleted boolean not null default false
>
> column there?  that's how i'd have gone, myself, instead of mangling 
> the plate number.

That's really how it should be done. But there are really significant
design mistakes made years ago, and I gave up messing with them. Will
just accomplish migration and that's all.


Regards.

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