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>Trying to restore the replication process, an engineer proceeds to wipe the PostgreSQL database directory, errantly thinking they were doing so on the secondary. Unfortunately this process was executed on the primary instead. The engineer terminated the process a second or two after noticing their mistake, but at this point around 300 GB of data had already been removed.

I could feel the sweat drops just from reading this.

I'd bet every one of us has experienced the panicked Ctrl+C of Death at some point or another.

parent meowface 9 years ago

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