Why It's So Hard to Add a Column in the Middle of a PostgreSQL Table

thunderbong 13 points 3 comments July 19, 2026
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wolvoleo

Huh interesting. I've always preferred MySQL anyway though these days I obviously use Mariadb because Oracle.

audunw

“Here is the catch: that single integer is wearing three hats at once.” How many times did that point have to be reiterated in unnecessary AI style? Was the article AI generated. I hope so, if not it really shows how bad AI has degraded our ability to write. Could you at least have read over and cleaned up the prose a bit? That whole section could have been written in straight forward human language, and it would be shorter, clearer and less infuriating to read.

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