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I love Postgres. But when I look at the bug list of every release it makes me scared. The types of bugs they have are indicative of a poor development process.

• throwawaylinux 4y ago
  What types of bugs are those? Can you explain a bit more?
• jtc331 4y ago
  No, it's indicative of the complexity of the system. Please show other similarly complex systems with fewer bugs: basically doesn't happen.
  • Underphil 4y ago
    Yep. We all have dirty laundry, it's just that we can see it open-source projects.
    • wiz21c 4y ago
      And at least, we see it. It's much easier to appreciate the threat when you see the submerged part of the iceberg :-)
• avi_vallarapu 4y ago
  Can you name a few such bugs please?
• avi_vallarapu 4y ago
  I worked on Oracle and MySQL for ages and seen tons of bugs. As a support company, the number of bugs we encounter with Postgres are none or hardly 1 in an year. I am still curios to see what those bugs are that made one scary !!!
  • jabiko 4y ago
    Yeah, ORA-00600 comes to mind. At my previous company we had to restore from backups once because of this error.
    • bzzzt 4y ago
      ORA-600 just means an Oracle process crashed while executing a query. Could be a bug in the query optimizer or a dead disk controller. Just restoring a backup without understanding the root cause seems like setting up the next occurrence...
• Avamander 4y ago
  Don't look at MariaDB or MySQL changelog or issue tracker then. You'd get a heart attack.
• vfclists 4y ago
  Surprising how people feel the need to respond to a post by someone with the handle "TedShiller". Is that a real name? Sorry if it is and I hurt your feelings.