top | item 18044644

(no title)

sv12l | 7 years ago

If data is central to your business, in all likelihood it will be, and you care.

discuss

order

calcifer|7 years ago

This is not a useful or constructive comment with its unstated argument of "only idiots use mysql". It's sarcastic flamewar bait.

guiriduro|7 years ago

No, its just the TL;DR version of a longer argument demonstrating MySQL's ability to lose, truncate and misinterpret data and ignore commands and thereby create false expectations (like, your data is validated and safe). PostgreSQL takes far greater care over data.