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Re:AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication exten... by AYBABTME on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:01PM (#44584510)
Just FYI that most people would recommend against doing this for legal reasons. PII information and the likes are not usually allowed to land in a staging or dev environment, for various reasons. Doing this or allowing it, is a huge liability.
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Re:AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication exten... by nico on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:32PM (#44584861)
Agreed, and there’s a few ways to deal with that, like not including certain tables or excluding the data via queries when creating the snapshot

Having said that, legal exposure and risk will highly depend on what you are working on. Probably for most projects this isn’t a big deal. IANAL, this is not legal advice

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