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Re:Forgetting the Asbestos: Or, how we lose knowledge and te... by reedf1 on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:05PM (#33322668)
Interested to know how one can misuse postgres enough to ban it!
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Re:Forgetting the Asbestos: Or, how we lose knowledge and te... by cogman10 on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:16PM (#33322779)
They stored data in the array and then did a bunch of queries against that array. Queries like "select * from foo where array contains value".

Shocker, that's slow.

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Re:Forgetting the Asbestos: Or, how we lose knowledge and te... by marcosdumay on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:51PM (#33323115)
Funny that this is a query where Postgres can famously and singularly be very fast.
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