Alan,

Since a primary key should always be unique, and not dependent on the status of any given row, then it shouldn't be an issue. If it *is* an issue, I think you need to re-examine what you are using for a primary key.

>This notion of , a record is not really deleted until a “Pack” is strange to me and is causing me to reconsider some basic design philosophies. If the user deletes a record from a table that has a primary key, is there a way for that user to re-enter that record before a pack procedure? If not then how to VFP programmers get around this?