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		philipwhiuk2 on Jan 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12 Purely at a guess, people's images are stored in the app as blobs because it's "easier"

kevas on Jan 26, 2021 | [–]

What was the strategy for moving things over? By age? Monitoring queries and determining what data isn’t being queried? Something else?

tommyzli on Jan 26, 2021 | [–]

Nope.

jbverschoor on Jan 26, 2021 | [–]

Probably some excessive data hoarding of location information, and perhaps too much meta data for each request.

Anyways, seems more like a liability than an achievement

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