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

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• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

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