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by liveoneggs 4431 days ago
it means a typo in release-15 auto-creates a whole new database without anyone noticing and you sit around and wonder where all of the data went yesterday.
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Oh man, the memories.

Just today I enjoyed explaining to a developer why his insert into a timestamp failed because of formatting, with a nice english error message. Thanks Postgres!

Whereas the same thing last year with Mongo just inserted the wrong date into a misspelled key and we didn't figure it out for days.