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> So no, Postgres didn't have amateur-hour data loss bugs in the early 2000s.

Well not until you'd been running it for a while and it ran out of tuples at least.

My argument wasn't that Pg was bug-free... In any case, Postgres was always superior to MySQL, whose default engine would silently truncate your data.

The MyISAM days were the wild west.

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