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Comment by robertlagrant

1 day ago

> their policy is not to accept RDMS engine specific queries

Why? Is it so they can switch in future?

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NARKOZ  7 hours ago

Earlier Rails avoided database specific features so apps could stay portable using only ActiveRecord. Since then Rails has added much better PostgreSQL support: JSON/JSONB, hstore, array columns, GIN/GiST indexes.

cl0ckt0wer  1 day ago

Then they don't have to troubleshoot advanced queries.

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