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sgarland | on: Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
> This means if you use UFT-8 in MySQL, you can’t use emoji for example.

I for one have always viewed this as a perk.

fhdsgbbcaA | parent
A database that doesn’t give you back what you put into it is never a perk. It literally can’t handle storing and retrieving the data.
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