If I delete Prefect flow directly from the databas...
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Christian Sanchez
11/27/2023, 4:49 AMIf I delete Prefect flow directly from the database with SQL, is that bad practice?
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Nate
11/27/2023, 5:42 AMhi @Christian Sanchez
I generally use the API for this, whether rest directly or our python client like
Nate
11/27/2023, 5:44 AMsnippet_py.py
Nate
11/27/2023, 5:47 AMis there a reason you wouldn't want to do it something like this way?
if you delete directly from the db, i suspect you'd risk db errors related to missing references to that flow, not exactly sure of the relations of the top of my head
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Christian Sanchez
11/27/2023, 5:51 PMThanks for commenting, @Nate. Just to delete old flows… no reason other than cleaning old stuff up but I guess there really is no reason to.