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On 04/09/2014 03:45 AM, Day, Phil wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Russell Bryant

>> We were thinking that there may be a use for being able to query a
>> full list of instances (including the deleted ones) for a group.
>> The API just hasn't made it that far yet.  Just hiding them for now
>> leaves room to iterate and doesn't prevent either option (exposing
>> the deleted instances, or changing to auto- delete them from the
>> group).

> Maybe it's just me, but I have a natural aversion to anything that
> grows forever in the database - over time and at scale this becomes a
> real problem.

Not just you.  I want my main database to reflect the current active 
data.  Historical data should go somewhere else.

Chris