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You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service – PostgreSQL as a Cache (2023)

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Re: You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service – PostgreSQL as a Cache (2023)

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Sometimes I feel like the articles posted here are elaborate trolls. Like they wanted to know what the purpose of a cache is and how/when to implement one, but they didn't want to do research, so they came up with the worst idea they could imagine and blogged about it, hoping someone on HN would tell them the right way (or just laughing at people trying to correct them). It gives me anxiety how much truly awful advic…

Not super constructive either, the beauty of having things like HN is to be able to discuss ideas, rather than just point to them as wrong. At least a couple of counterpoints on why this would be a bad idea and offer a better approach.

I would honestly love to educate people here. But when the rabble come together to downvote you and dismiss what you're saying, the general perception from any reader is going to be that I'm wrong because so many people are disagreeing with me. Despite the fact that I'm literally an expert and they're not. So it's useless. (And just hurts my soul.)

Re: You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service – PostgreSQL as a Cache (2023)

#82

Sometimes I feel like the articles posted here are elaborate trolls. Like they wanted to know what the purpose of a cache is and how/when to implement one, but they didn't want to do research, so they came up with the worst idea they could imagine and blogged about it, hoping someone on HN would tell them the right way (or just laughing at people trying to correct them). It gives me anxiety how much truly awful advic…

OP here: I was looking around on the internet, found the article, thought it was interesting and posted it. I think that's being constructive. You on the other hand haven't added anything to the discussion (caching/postgres), but rather are yelling at the clouds. If you think the article is such a bad idea, provide some alternative links. If you're not in the mood to do that, just go to the next thing you might find…

This was also the third time it has been posted in five months.
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