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I see many examples in nova of where we still read rows with
read_deleted="yes". I think we need to see a plan for how to remove
all of those before we can progress this.

Michael

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Johannes Erdfelt <johannes at erdfelt.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> I generally think this is a good idea too.
>
>> I've never understood why we treat the DB as a LOG (keeping deleted == 0
>> records around) when we should just use a LOG (or similar system) to
>> begin with instead.
>>
>> Does anyone use the feature of switching deleted == 1 back to
>> deleted = 0? Has this worked out for u?
>
> This isn't the only potential use. It's possible that code depends on
> being able to still access deleted records.
>
> For instance, in the past we could delete an instance_type, but if an
> instance is still referencing it, code would still try to fetch it from
> the database some times.
>
> This particular example probably isn't an issue anymore since I think all
> of that has been moved to instance metadata specifically to avoid
> problems like this.
>
> That said, I think it's well worth the effort to simplify the code and
> make operators lives easier.
>
> JE
>
>
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