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Sixteen Locks Ought to Be Enough for Anybody

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  1. dherls · · focus · HN ↗
    This whole website appears to be Claude slop articles about Postgres.
    1. seki285 · · focus · HN ↗
      The "art" is repulsive as well.
      1. cpettus · · focus · HN ↗
        Anyone who does not like cute cartoons of ducks is tired of life.
  2. smallmancontrov · · focus · HN ↗
    > Build a users table with a primary key and twenty single-column indexes

    That's pretty bad

    > (I have seen worse in production, and so have you)

    but yes, yes I have.

  3. bunderbunder · · focus · HN ↗
    I have a hard time believing acquiring so many locks you don't need is particularly harmless. Won't every single one of those introduce a memory fence? Which will then stall out every CPU core on the server.
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