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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:14AM (#29171971)
Yep Postgres seems to have more features too for sure. Also, a fun little limitation of the MySQL CLI is that it truncates hostnames to 100 characters - not usually a problem, but AWS database VPC hostnames easily hit that limit, and it just silently truncates rather than failing.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by agent327 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:57AM (#29173694)
"It silently does something unexpected rather than failing" succinctly summarizes all the reasons you shouldn't be using MySQL.
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