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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On August 11, 2009, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> Another (simpler) option is to abuse the fact that the Person and
> Account tables are not linked by foreign keys and create the Person
> entry when needed but not link it to the existing Account. That way,
> everything would just magically work as the Person would seem to have no
> account. The only thing we'd have to do is change the registration/login
> (maybe reset password too) process to link the Person to the Account
> when they are not linked. Of course, by doing that we would also be
> hiding any bugs that might cause associated Person/Account entries to
> not be linked when they should.

We should not do that. These records are going to be reported as broken by 
Garbo (which has checks in place to ensure data consistency).

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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