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Hello.

    While going thru a prepopulated civicrm db (which i'm quite sure contains corrupt data in many tables due to the means in which it was created)
i came across rows in civicrm_contact for contacts of type "Individual" which did not have a corresponding row in civicrm_individual.

  So the question is, is it possible that when a contact of type individual is created
using CiviCRM's standard interfaces (API, GUI etc) a corresponding row in civicrm_individual may not be needed ?

I tested it using the GUI interface in CiviCRM 1.9 i.e. just added an Individual with only an email address. This workflow
added an entry in the civicrm_contact and civicrm_individual table.

 I also browsed the code in CRM/Contact/BAO/Contact.php where i found 3 relevant functions.

static function &create(&$params, &$ids, $maxLocationBlocks, $fixAddress = true, $invokeHooks = true )
static function &createFlat( &$params, &$ids )
static function createProfileContact( &$params, &$fields, $contactID = null,

in both create and createFlat the functions for creating an Individual record are called but i could not located it in the createProfileContact function.
hence i'm unclear on whether a row in civicrm_individual has to exist for every row in civicrm_contact of type "Individual"

Thanks.

Yashesh Bhatia