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Are you asking why we wouldn’t use 'last_updated' to store when the record was deleted? One reason is that you might want to know when it was last updated befo

• nottorp 8mo ago
  No, more like why you'd use a more expensive filter to hide soft deleted data, instead of just a flag.
  • masklinn 8mo ago
    Checking whether `deleted_at is null` should be extremely cheap, and it avoids the duplication and desynchronisation of having both “deleted” and “deleted_at”.
    • nottorp 8mo ago
      Yes, if your database has null. I know this is about postgres, but a lot of stuff is nosql now.
      • indigo945 8mo ago
        Even in MongoDB, you can can index `null` values, so I don't understand in what database system this would be a problem.