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by bawolff 526 days ago
> However, a CT log failure earlier this year due to MariaDB corruption after disk space exhaustion provided the motivation for a change. PostgreSQL, with its robust Write-ahead Logging (WAL) and strict adherence to ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) principles, made it a better option for avoiding corruption and improving data integrity of the log.

This sounds incredibly suspicious to me. I wonder which storage engine they were using or if there was any unusual configuration that contributed to this issue.