Ted Roche wrote:

<snipped> In MySQL (and every other data engine without the RECALL command),
PACKing is rarely if ever needed, so you can DELETE the whole batch of
fred2types  M:M records and create a new set without concern.


The only concern would be if there are sibling or child records elsewhere that were pointing back to the Primary Key values for those records you just replaced with new ones.

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