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by Karellen 897 days ago
How does using a timestamp column make querying the database more annoying than using a boolean column? Aren't the places you have to use filters exactly the same either way?
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I'm sorry, I wasn't being clear. Any column meaning "this row is to be ignored for most applications" is an annoying pattern.
Ah, now I see I responded to the wrong message.