"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, z = $4 WHERE y = $3 RETURNING *",
does not do the same as
"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, y = $3, z = $4 RETURNING *",
It’s 2 am and my mind blanked out the WHERE, and just wanted the numbers neatly in order of 1234.
idiot.
FML.
this folks, is why you don’t raw dog sql like some caveman
Me only know caveman. Not have big brain only smooth brain
Yep. If you’re in a situation where you have to write SQL on the fly in prod, you have already failed.
it’s time to commit sqlpukku
Me doing it for multiple years in a Bank…Uhm…
(let’s just say I am not outting my money near them… and not just because of that but other things…)
Tell that to my former employer…
Yeah, I swear it’s part of the culture at some places. At my first full-time job, my boss dropped the production database the week before I started. They lost at least a day of records because of it and he spent most of the first day telling me why writing sql in prod was bad.
But the adrenaline man… some of us are jonkies of adrenaline but we are too afraid of anything more of physically dangerous…
You may be interested in suicide linux then. it’s a distro that wipes your entire hard drive if you mistype a command
Raw dog is the fastest way to finish a task.
It’s a trade-off