Re: remove gaps in a table

From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars_at_web.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:00:13 +0100
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[Quoted] J.O. Aho wrote:

> For you if you want completely gapless order numbers, don't delete, when
> an order is "deleted", you generate a new order which is the complete
> opposite of the original order, […]

[Quoted] [Quoted] It is infinitely easier and makes much more sense to have a field that says “if I have a certain value, this order was made but canceled later”. And that is what is usually done. Usually the type of that field is BOOLEAN or INT.

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