"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 likes some cavemean
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
There’s no way you’re endorsing the way OP handled their data right?
No, but people are sometimes forced to do these things because of pressure from management and/or lack of infrastructure to do it in any other way.
Definitely don’t endorse it but I have done it. Think of a “Everything is down” situation that can be fixed in 1 minute with SQL.
Yep. If you’re in a situation where you have to write SQL on the fly in prod, you have already failed.
Me doing it for multiple years in a Bank…Uhm…
(let’s just say I am not outting my money near them…
Tell that to my former employer…