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		iwwff 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building durable workflows on Postgres Every time I am surprised to see the promises of the cheap durability without mentioning costs of running dirable postgres, which might be not easy or cheap.

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everforward 1 day ago [–]

Postgres is durable by default, it's ACID compliant. It is not reliable in the HA sense by default.

Either way, I'd bet a hosted Postgres with HA is cheaper than whatever PaaS you're thinking of.

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