TIL: Creating tables without primary keys CAN cause updates and deletes to fail in Postgres

A long time ago, I read in a medical book that One can learn about a system when things go wrong. So diseases are a good way to learn more about how the human body functions. That sentence stuck with me and this is about a story where someone made a mistake and learned something (someone, not me, I don’t make mistakes). It was friday afternoon (why do all tech disaster stories start on friday?...

June 7, 2024 · 8 min · Abhinav Omprakash