[katello-devel] The importance of foreign keys

[Lukas Zapletal]

I also think it's worth a proof of concept. I really don't know why RoR
community resist foreign keys, but apparently defining constraints on
the database level is much more easier than keeping this in the
codebase.

+1

LZ

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:18:35AM -0400, Ivan Necas wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I know this topic appeared here several times but still it doesn't seem
> to be considered important. Here is an issue that I've hit today [1]: see
> it's description for more details.
> 
> This kind of issues is really dangerous because there is generally a time
> span between the error that uses sees and the moment when the cause happens.
> (in this case promoting a changeset vs. deleting an environment). We already
> hit this kind of issues in the past and it's not fun debugging it, especially
> on the customer side.
> 
> Therefore, I would like to open this topic again and ask for reconsideration
> of the priority and ideally make introducing of foreign keys for associations
> in our db one of the high-priority tasks for next sprint.
> 
> [1] - https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/1743
> 
> -- Ivan
> 
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Later,

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