https://semikolan.me/tags/postgres/ Recent content in postgres on semikolan Hugo en Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:19:11 +0530 https://semikolan.me/blog/the-case-for-boring-databases/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://semikolan.me/blog/the-case-for-boring-databases/ <p>My default database is Postgres, and my second choice is also Postgres. This isn&rsquo;t nostalgia. It&rsquo;s that &ldquo;boring&rdquo; is a technical property, and it&rsquo;s one I want more of as a system gets important.</p> <h2 id="what-boring-buys-you">What boring buys you <a class="anchor" href="#what-boring-buys-you" aria-label="Link to this section">#</a></h2> <p>A boring database is one whose failure modes are already written down — in blog posts, in Stack Overflow answers, in the scar tissue of every engineer you&rsquo;ll ever hire. When it&rsquo;s 3am and something is wrong, you are not the first person to see this error. That is worth more than almost any feature.</p>