Radim Marek: Getting rid of a 4 TB table in PostgreSQL

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Planet PostgreSQL at 31 Oct, 22:00 UTC

GitLab has a public story about deleting the wrong thing. In January 2017 an engineer who was trying to restore replication wiped a data directory they believed was on the secondary. It was on the primary. The postmortem they published afterwards is still one of the better things written about a…

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• T2Radim Marek: Getting rid of a 4 TB table in PostgreSQLPlanet PostgreSQL31 Oct, 22:00