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by captain_perl 2983 days ago
> this is the database that lied (lies?) about ACID transactions

Time moves on. The Innodb storage engine has had ACID transactions for over a decade.

> no problems storing non-existent dates in a DateTime-column

PostgreSQL checks date formats, but updating (or not updating) timezone databases would affect validity. So it's not as simple an issue as you make it to be.