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by judofyr 3 hours ago
Some examples just from the second paragraph:

- while none of this is exaggerated

- it comes down to a real design choice

- the bloat, the amplified writes, the vacuum babysitting

- every charge traces to a decision, not a defect

- the verdict that spreads from community to community always stops one question early

- watch the damage happen yourself

Here's one way of how to write it in simpler language:

> These are not user mistakes and it's easy to reproduce these issues in a few lines of SQL on the latest version of Postgres. We're going to go through each of these problematic cases one by one to understand what's happening. Next, we're going to look at how other databases are solving it. Turns out there is no silver-bullet here: Postgres just makes a different set of trade-offs than other databases.

EDIT: And you can read for yourself how the LLM rates these two paragraphs compared to each other: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a6a3120-fec4-83eb-9c8b-dbb6294aa5...