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rcrowley 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

The question isn't how many orphaned rows do you have, it's whether it matters. Databases are wonderful but they cannot maintain every invariant and they cannot express a whole application. They're one tool in the belt.

sgarland 12 months ago | [–]

> cannot express a whole application

Not with that attitude: https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v13/index.html

Orphaned rows can very much matter for data privacy concerns, which is also where I most frequently see this approach failing.

jashmatthews 12 months ago | [–]

Most companies can afford not to give a shit until they hit SOC2 or GDPR compliance and then suddenly orphaned data is a giant liability.

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