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There are different kinds of soft delete.

I've had cases where the rows in question absolutely could not be hard deleted, because of legacy foreign key relations. But the PII in those rows had to go. So we did a kind of "firm delete" by setting all columns (except the PK and a few necessary flags) to their default values and/or null.




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