Episode 103
Soft delete
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
June 28, 202437m 40s
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Show Notes
Nikolay and Michael discuss soft deletion in Postgres — what it means, several use cases, some implementation options, and which implementations suit which use cases.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
- Soft deletion probably isn't worth it (blog post by Brandur) https://brandur.org/soft-deletion
- Easy alternative soft deletion (blog post by Brandur) https://brandur.org/fragments/deleted-record-insert
- Our episode on auditing https://postgres.fm/episodes/auditing
- CREATE FUNCTION … SECURITY DEFINER (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createfunction.html
- Principle of least privilege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
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Postgres FM is produced by:
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
With special thanks to:
- Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork
Topics
PostgresPostgreSQLDatabasesSQLtechnology