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I agree with the “order of magnitude” text size limit. I tend to put 10x of what I would consider the expected average. A bit like cryptographers put 2x the num

I agree with the “order of magnitude” text size limit. I tend to put 10x of what I would consider the expected average. A bit like cryptographers put 2x the number of rounds they think may be eventually broken. Why should the database be the input sanitizer, though? Intermediary systems can break or degrade before it reaches PostgreSQL.

radiowave 5y ago
> Why should the database be the input sanitizer, though? More in the realm of traditional business IT than what HN is focused on, the database is often the point of integration between several different systems, with views and triggers providing the means of abstraction at the interface boundry. Of course ideally all such systems would only ever profer perfectly valid data, but in practice ...