It’s like having your password set to “password”
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Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 9 months agoso, uh… can you ELI5 this for those of us that don’t know anything?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
crookfingerjake@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The type of database they are using is called “postgres”, which is also it’s password.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They should’ve used “1234”
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
That’s the combo on my luggage!
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I will assume this is just the password they use in development. But they should probably be using pglite.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.
Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.
I’m sure others can give more detailed responses.
theherk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example.
I was in a rush! Honestly it was the quickest thing I could come up with on the spot, plus database tools are something I lack a lot of knowledge about so I really couldn’t go in depth even if I wanted to.
Appreciate the history behind Reddit’s database!
forgeddit@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The person you replied to doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It’s just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.
You can see this in the readme: archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/…/directory/?…
See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.