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Till v8.0.16 mysql used to accept and then just ignore check constraints I've never been so offended by a technology as the day I discovered that; it's not a m
by setr 6y ago
Till v8.0.16 mysql used to accept and then just ignore check constraints
I've never been so offended by a technology as the day I discovered that; it's not a misfeature and its not a bug -- only pure malice could have driven such a decision
- zodiakzz 6y agoDon't forget the 3-byte encoding they invented and call it 'utf8'.
- spiralx 6y agoI remember reading the MySQL Gotchas page back in the 2000s and that leaping out as a particularly egregious issue. It fit in with their whole ethos of "databases don't need transactions and users don't need errors" around that time though, which put me off for life.