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Re:Rules of thumb for a 1x developer by winrid on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:09PM (#23036802)
You can have well defined data and use Mongo. Those two things are not related. I worked at a place that used Postgres and put an object w/ 11k unique paths in a single JSONB column with no schema or documentation whatsoever.
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Re:Rules of thumb for a 1x developer by winrid on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:09PM (#23036808)
... and this system was responsible for billing, and many other things....
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Re:Rules of thumb for a 1x developer by unnouinceput on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:29PM (#23037493)
and? That's not PGSQL fault, is the DB architect (or lack of) fault. You definitely can drive the safest car in a ditch, no?
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Re:Rules of thumb for a 1x developer by winrid on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:51PM (#23038939)
That was my point right? It has nothing to do with the DB.
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