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>So you are going to base the crashing of a database on the cursory non expert runtime of your eyes.

You look over the source code to decide whether the database is worth proceeding with. I would assume the OP did other research as well, even if code quality was the deciding factor.

And again, I don't find the text editor analogy a compelling argument.



Perhaps Operating System would be a better example.

It is hard to map an analogy 100% (after all it is an analogy).

> I would assume the OP did other research as well, even if code quality was the deciding factor.

I wouldn't assume anything about the OP particularly given how poor the original comment was (including not telling what his/her findings were).


If I view the source code to an operating system, and it looks like it was written by an amateur, I'm probably going to try to find a better option.

I would say his comment implied he went with Postgres. I generally think of MySQL, which, if memory serves, was started by people with little database knowledge, as not being as high quality as Postgres, which came directly out of another relational database project.




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