Soft delete

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) brandur.org/soft-deletion
• Easy alternative soft deletion (blog post by Brandur) brandur.org/fragments/deleted-record-insert
• Our episode on auditing postgres.fm/episodes/auditing
• CREATE FUNCTION … SECURITY DEFINER (docs) postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createfunction…
• Principle of least privilege en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privi…

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