The confusing thing, in this exchange is why Lachlan would be concerned about an object which, on the face of it, should never have been constructed (since it was created and then deleted, before it was ever persisted), or why he would want to create objects to replace those that had been deleted.
From the program's point of view, it's clear that TRANSIENT can be treated exactly the same as DELETED, since they both mean that some persistable object previously created in the program has subsequently been deleted by the program. From the database's point of view, the states can't be treated the same way; the DELETED object has to be deleted from the database, the TRANSIENT object was never in the database and can be ignored.
Tony
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