Problemsby GlyphPostgreSQL outages and slowdowns disrupt work
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HashiCorp Vault refresh wipes a good External Secrets cache after a failed LIST/GET
...cache (`get-secrets-proxy.ts` → `hasSecret`). They do not re-fetch Vault. So one flaky LIST/GET during the 5-minute refresh empties or holes the cache until the next successful refresh. This is still present on current master / 2.41.0 (`this.cachedSecrets = secrets` after...
PostgreSQL recipe: renaming a column without downtime (expand and contract)
...but it breaks any running old version of the app during a rolling deploy. The usual workaround is to never have a moment where only one name exists. Here’s the sequence, with Postgres commands. Test it on a scratch database first.. 1. Expand: add the new column . ALTER TABLE...
URGENT production outage — DB connection timeouts (wwxjopfybrfomtealpjc, us-east-1)
...pgBouncer + pooler timeout incidents today marked "resolved" - our project is still failing hours later (now 21h+ into your maintenance-window day) Impact: full production outage of our application - every request requires DB access. Please reset the affected pooler on your side...
Ownership over a "legacy" DB
.... so instead of account_profile, they have used accountProfiles, so for requests it gets annoying like 'accountProfiles'.'userNames'. but this is minor. i can't change it without a big migration that isn't worth it. so I have decided to keep going into their direction even tho I...
Transaction pooler (Supavisor, port 6543) intermittently hangs on trivial, already-indexed queries — project jtctezujqbzwgcsufqsj, eu-west-1
# Bug report We've had recurring production outages on this project caused by the transaction pooler (port 6543) intermittently hanging on requests, even for trivial, fast, indexed queries. The direct/session pooler (port 5432) has never once failed under the same conditions....
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5 posts from 5 people in 4 places, about 1 a week over 45 days. Mostly on supabase/supabase, r/PostgreSQL, n8n-io/n8n. Tools named alongside: Supabase, AWS, Kubernetes, n8n.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "outage" rule about PostgreSQL. First post Sep 20, 2026, latest Nov 3, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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