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by fmajid 60 days ago
It's not as obvious as you think, GitLab was hit by this a few years ago. But yes, low-quality article and the SQL Server plug is in poor taste.
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Many SEV-1s are “obvious”. Still feels like a kick in the stomach if your the one that was response LOLz.
I meant "obvious to anyone putting PostgreSQL in production that they have to put specific monitoring in place for this, and palliative measures"

The database shutting itself down and refusing to come back up until a full vacuum or vacuum freeze is performed, which means days of downtime, yes, that's pretty obvious indeed.