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Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by longcommonname on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:41AM (#28769276)
What level of competency do you need to run dbs?
Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by darthrupert on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:49AM (#28769314)
Poorly? Almost none.

Well? Significant.

Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by edoceo on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:10AM (#28769435)
Unhelpful and arrogant. We are amateurs in the eyes of the gods.
Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by dijit on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:24AM (#28769844)
It’s very easy to set something up for the first time.

It’s a bit complex to keep something running for a long time.

It’s very difficult to make something fault tolerant with no data loss or corruption.

Arrogance is thinking that these things are easy because you can read a quickstart.

Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by tinus_hn on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @03:31AM (#28770222)
It is true though, but it is also true that a ‘poorly’ run database server is good enough for many use cases. There is a reason people are DBAs and they are very well paid.
Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by janto on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:30AM (#28770954)
Arrogant and foolish to declare no-one can be high skilled.
Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes by darthrupert on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:12AM (#28772157)
You're right. But so am I.