Re: [elephant-devel] Referential Integrity

2008-06-11 Thread Robert L. Read
If one could operate under the assumption that most of the database fits into memory, I would say the act of dealing with references that would be left dangling is definitely better handled at the "business object" layer. This would mean that in the "delete" method for each class, it would know wh

[elephant-devel] Referential Integrity

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Eslick
While Elephant currently has a reasonable method for lazy handling of broken dependencies (pointers from an object slot to an object that no longer exists), it doesn't provide any reasonable method for computing the set of broken dependancies when an object is dropped. I'm finding for my cu