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tucnak05/04/20251 replyview on HN

DELETE in SKIP LOCKED scenario is recipe for failure. God/Postgres gave you transactions for atomicity... only UPDATE w/ SKIP LOCKED, holy brother in Christ, and only DELETE completed normally.


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baq05/04/2025

God gave us Postgres to teach humanity that everything is an INSERT.

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