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		JamesSwift on Oct 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Downsides of Offline First The primary benefit is theres no post-hoc reconciliation you need to do where you re-write all the foreign keys and object ids. It greatly streamlines the entire process, and lets you eliminate a lot of code / potential bugs.

mamcx on Oct 1, 2021 [–]

I found it make far easier to see what object are candidates for sync, and to know the original row in the server.

I think makes a diference if exist a master database or if is peer-to-peer..

JamesSwift on Oct 1, 2021 | [–]

Yeah peer-to-peer is a different scenario. I'm assuming traditional client-server.

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