Indeed, design is the art of balancing tradeoffs I think. I appreciate your argument for constraints being a guard rail for developers who are moving fast and o

Indeed, design is the art of balancing tradeoffs I think. I appreciate your argument for constraints being a guard rail for developers who are moving fast and occasionally breaking things. I think nowadays you can enable and disable the checking of constraints in MySQL dynamically without having to restart the database, which would have greatly reduced my past frustrations. Nice to chat!