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blog: "I fought PostgreSQL (and eventually won)"

We had severeral hours of downtime yesterday because of a "fun" PostgreSQL problem (see Beware of your next glibc upgrade for details). Short version: because there are lots of ways to encode text, and they can change subtly when you upgrade your OS, some of your unique database keys may end [...]

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(posted at Thu, 14 May 2020 22:09:32 GMT)

blog.freeradical.zoneI fought PostgreSQL (and eventually won)We had severeral hours of downtime yesterday because of a "fun" PostgreSQL problem (see Beware of your next glibc upgrade for details). Short version: because there are lots of ways to encode text, and they can change subtly when you upgrade your OS, some of your unique database keys may