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by ja27 4704 days ago
Vaguely related but we had a customer using some feature that split text blobs using a record separator. One time someone wanted to not split at all and set separator="none" without bothering to look up how to actually turn off record splitting. It worked well enough in quick tests, but by the time we'd gotten the support call, they'd corrupted a massive database where every product with a description containing the string "none" was now corrupted.