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JackFr
on Dec 21, 2023
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Do you really need foreign keys?
Indeed - I immediately thought of hypothetical system (similar to many systems I’ve worked on) where SELECTS are 100x more common than INSERTS which are 100x more common than DELETES.
The 5x speed up on delete performance is a useless optimization.
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The 5x speed up on delete performance is a useless optimization.