What's interesting about that is that they have a relatively small db, and that they only had a single snapshot available (and WAL apparently wasn't available o

What's interesting about that is that they have a relatively small db, and that they only had a single snapshot available (and WAL apparently wasn't available or backed up for a point in time restore). We use RDS at AWS, thankfully handles automated daily snapshots and point in time restore via binlog. Cost is relatively cheap too (for a company making millions), and our db is several times larger than Gitlab's was at the time. It's also pretty worrying that a single developer was doing work directly on production databases without a second person there to say "yeah, looks good". This is a big operational mistake, no matter how good you think you are.