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> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys, the cascade delete must have been manually imple

> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys, the cascade delete must have been manually implemented. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486494

ric2b 4y ago
They use Rails, right? It's probably a cascade delete but done on the application, Rails makes that very easy.
ncmncm 4y ago
That it took a half hour to do all the pointless activity says something.