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The web server is explicitly for development purposes. It is not meant for production. > It strikes me that adding more tools that incompetent web developers can abuse is what got them there in the first place. This is profoundly ridiculous. It's the equivalent of saying Home Depot shouldn't sell power tools because some do-it-yourselfer might saw his foot off. Just because a tool can be misused is not an argument ag…
Just because a tool can be misused is not an argument against it nor its inclusion. I used to believe this, but now I couldn't disagree more. People can and do misuse things all the bloody time, and the more you enable them to do that, the worse your tool is. How people use what you make is every bit as important, possibly even more important than the technical merits of what you make. I'd rather a builder use a seco…
By that measure, PostgreSQL is a horrible database. After all look what happens when I do this:
CREATE TABLE foo (
id serial not null unique,
bar text primary key
);
CREATE TABLE foobar (
chunk_id serial not null unique,
foos foo[]
);
INSERT INTO foobar (foos) values (array[row(1, null)::foo, row(2, '1323')::foo, row(3, '2222')::foo]);
select * from foobar;