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Postgres has also had pretty serious bugs, eg fsyncgate


There's also the more fundamental issue that Postgres - unlike something like Yugabyte - does not use a distributed consensus algorithm for writes and can lose committed writes during network partitions.

But of course, neither does Tailscale's weird DIY contraption.




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