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And when it all goes bottoms up it will be much more difficult to resolve.
by dijit 4y ago
And when it all goes bottoms up it will be much more difficult to resolve.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoDepends. A lot of postgres usage is often "things that might as well be redis", like session tokens (but the library we imported came configured for postgres) so if the postgres goes down, as long as it can be restarted it won't be the end of the world even if all the data were wiped. Probably there is also an 80/20 for most users where it's not awful if you can restore from a cold storage, say 12h, backup.
- baq 4y agoFortunately Postgres doesn’t do that often by itself. It usually needs some creative developer’s assistance.
- dijit 4y agoI think you’re triggering the worst case a lot more often when it comes to running Postgres on k8s: the storage can be removed independently from the workload and the pod can be evicted much easier than it would be in traditional database hosting methods. No need for developers to do anything strange at all.