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You have to add a lot of scaffolding to postgres to make it semi-immutable. datomic just is, wanna know previous user email, just go back and see. Out of the bo
by roguas 3y ago
You have to add a lot of scaffolding to postgres to make it semi-immutable. datomic just is, wanna know previous user email, just go back and see. Out of the box, without thinking about it.
- evantbyrne 3y agoImmutability is certainly tempting for certain kinds of data. Does it handle use-cases where data needs to be deleted though? i.e., privacy compliance.
- mcbits 3y agoIt looks like they call that excision, which leaves behind a breadcrumb saying something was deleted and which can't itself be deleted.
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- dgb23 3y agoTemporality in general becomes super handy if you have something like reports that need to be consistent across time. Or if you want to ask questions about the past. Or questions about the future without affecting the present.
- mbesto 3y agoSuper interesting, thanks.