Ah gotcha - yes this is a flaw in Rails - from the first version, Rails aimed to be "database-agnostic," which isn't actually a valuable property in practice. A

Ah gotcha - yes this is a flaw in Rails - from the first version, Rails aimed to be "database-agnostic," which isn't actually a valuable property in practice. And DHH disregards when he feels like it, eg. nonsense like https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9f6e82ee4783e491c20f5244a613fdeb4024beb5 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9f6e82ee4783e491c20f52... .