Bug Hunt
The Bug That Only Happened on Tuesdays
A weekly export failed every Tuesday and worked every other day. Three wrong hypotheses later, the cause was a date format string nobody had looked at in four years.
Long form accounts of single debugging investigations, false leads included. The wrong turns are the part you learn from.
Bug Hunt
A weekly export failed every Tuesday and worked every other day. Three wrong hypotheses later, the cause was a date format string nobody had looked at in four years.
PostgreSQL
Adding a column should be instant. Sometimes it is not, and the difference is worth knowing before you run it in production.