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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by nine_k on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:23AM (#31037127)
An ON UPDATE trigger for the is_deleted column would do.

Some databases also support INSTEAD OF triggers.

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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by vaishnavsm on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#31066108)
Doesn't ON UPDATE only work for foreign keys? As far as I know, it's used to update the foreign key itself, and not values based on relationships.
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