I can understand patch updates, but what else are the devs doing?

  • theodewere
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    191 year ago

    databases are weirdly mechanical in that you have to shut them off now and then to sort of straighten out the rows and columns, and chuck out abandoned or corrupted files… maybe add some grease in the form of optimizations and then fire it back up so users can get it all messy again inside… mostly because they’re all written just well enough to function…

    • JackbyDev
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      11 year ago

      That doesn’t sound right. Why would turning a database off let it do anything? It’s off. Most databases periodically do stuff like this in the background.