On 03/20/2015 04:11 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
As for why; Postgres already has a big reputation for being "hard to use" and "hard to setup". Leaving footguns laying around that could easily be warned about is part of the reason for that reputation. Reality is that there are a lot of people using Postgres that are nowhere close to being DBAs and making it easy for them to munch their data on accident doesn't help anyone.
Exactly. JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ 503-667-4564 PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development High Availability, Oracle Conversion, @cmdpromptinc Now I get it: your service is designed for a customer base that grew up with Facebook, watches Japanese seizure robot anime, and has the attention span of a gnat. I'm not that user., "Tyler Riddle" -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers