From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
Cc: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Sakai <rodrigo.sakai@zanthus.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: FOREIGN KEYS vs PERFORMANCE
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:36:20 -0500
Message-ID: <20060412153619.GG49405@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.s7vv4ex2cigqcu@apollo13>
References: <001301c65d9c$08884ef0$4700a8c0@TREEZANTHUS>
<72C39159-1A4B-4595-A978-1DF57AD42527@myrealbox.com>
<op.s7vv4ex2cigqcu@apollo13>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:22:52AM +0200, PFC wrote:
>
> >> I think this is an old question, but I want to know if it really is
> >>well worth to not create some foreign keys an deal with the referential
> >>integrity at application-level?????
>
> Trust me : do it in the application and you'll enter a world of
> hurt. I'm doing it with some mysql apps, and it's a nightmare ; doing
> cascaded delete's by hand, etc, you always forget something, you have to
> modify a million places in your code everytime you add a new table, your
> ORM bloats, you get to write cleanup cron scripts which take forever to
> run, your website crashes etc.
Well, yeah, thats typical for MySQL sites, but what's that have to do
with RI?
Sorry, couldn't resist. :P
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