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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by mikeklaas on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:22PM (#29060572)
I find it pretty odd to speculate that they are experiencing a very specific failure mode of a particular database. Do you even know whether they use Postgres?
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by anyfoo on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:41PM (#29060724)
Maybe their load balancer got hit by a 2009 Toyota Camry with a sticky accelerator pedal?
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by wdr1 on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:20AM (#29062965)
I know we're already in the weeds, but Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” did an excellent episode on the stuck accelerator problem, basically showing it almost certainly didn't happen.

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/blame-game/

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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by Threeve303 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:55PM (#29060832)
It is a very unlikely Y2K bug
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by firecall on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:30PM (#29061479)
It's not odd at all!

Speculation is a useful intellectual exercise, and the sign of a healthy, intelligent and curious mind!

Speculation is also fun!

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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by Buttons840 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:30PM (#29061872)
No, it's just FUD directed at Postgres.
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by ravi-delia on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:39PM (#29062244)
OP specifically pointed out that it's well documented. Every program makes tradeoffs, and I don't think anyone in this thread implied that because Postgres made this one it's unstable or bad.
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by Buttons840 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:41PM (#29062549)
The specific behavior of Postgres isn't the FUD, the FUD is the speculation that this is what brought down Roblox for multiple days. As others have mentioned, we don't even know if Roblox uses Postgres, and yet we're diving deep on how an edge case of Postgres brought down Roblox. It's the speculation that I think is FUD.
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Re:Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chi... by mbesto on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:35PM (#29061898)
I did too but it's pretty easy to find out which database(s) a company uses:

https://corp.roblox.com/careers/listing/?gh_jid=3363389

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