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If I delete Prefect flow directly from the database with SQL, is that bad practice?

delete_flow.ipy

hi <@U05V1JY9PU1>

I generally use the API for this, whether rest directly or our python client like

snippet_py.py

is 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

Thanks for commenting, <@U02GMEZU18B>. Just to delete old flows… no reason other than cleaning old stuff up but I guess there really is no reason to.