Re: [development] Have you ever laughed fate in the face?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Larry Garfield wrote:

(IMHO) than before. However, a deleted flag column would essentially mean 99% of all entity queries (node, comment, user) from now on would have to remember to check "WHERE deleted=0". Do we really want to introduce that extra step?

IMHO what Dries suggested with the status column is simple. status = 1 is already in queries. status = 0 means unpublished, another status can mean deleted. No need to modify queries (just review existing ones for the status queries). Gabor