[aur-dev] Data left behind from a deleted package

[canyonknight]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I recently looked through the AUR source, it seemed to me that when
> a package is deleted, a record is only removed from the `Packages` table
> and that there is data for the corresponding package still in
> `CommentNotify`, `PackageComments`, `PackageContents`, `PackageSources`
> and `PackageVotes`.
>
> Does this orphan data get deleted by another mechanism I haven't seen?
> If not, could I send patches that do a better job of cleaning it up?
>

Foreign key constraints in the database schema should take care of
removing the relevant data from the other tables when a record is
removed from the `Packages` table.

Regards,

Jason