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MTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Prioritizes Reliability
James Nelson’s Postgres Love Letter comes down to reliability: being able to depend on the database as the software around it changes.
In this T3D Session, James, Founder and CTO of PgCache, joins JD to explore the benefits and frustrations of PostgreSQL’s conservative approach to development. Protecting existing behavior matters to the people running applications, but so does fixing limitations they encounter in production. JD recalls earlier struggles over timestamp behavior, while James considers how forks give developers room to experiment with changes that could eventually inform core…
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