Soft-deleting Postgres rows without losing the URL slug

1. 1Create a new column to track soft-deleted rows
2. 2Update the unique constraint to exclude soft-deleted rows
3. 3Write a function to soft-delete rows and release the slug
4. 4Use the function to soft-delete a row and verify the slug is released
5. 5Test the solution with multiple rows and slugs
6. 6Apply the solution to your production database

Developers and database administrators can benefit from this technique to manage data efficiently and avoid conflicts with unique URL slugs

💡 Use a separate column to track soft-deleted rows and update the unique constraint to exclude them, allowing the URL slug to be reused

💡 Soft-delete Postgres rows without losing the URL slug using a simple 6-line code technique!