Questions around cascades and soft deletes

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Question I have a couple questions around relation cascades that are not answered by the documentation.

1. What’s the difference between setting cascade: "remove" and setting onDelete: "CASCADE"?
2. Does setting onDelete: "CASCADE" cause soft deletes to cascade as well? or can that only be specified using the cascade option.
3. Does cascade: "recover" mean that recovering a soft deleted object will cascade the recovery?

[imnotjames]

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[jbjhjm]

Sorry @imnotjames, I have to disagree in this case. Documentation is very incomplete when it comes to cascades and what does what. Github issues is the #1 go-to knowledge base for everything that’s not documented, while community slack is all about individual issues and hard to use if you search for information.

Neither here, nor in the documentation, nor on discord was I able to find useful information on what the newer cascade types actually do. Guess I’m on my own here. Will try to pull to documentation if I find out how it is supposed to work.