© Laurenz Albe 2023 This is a short war story from a customer problem. It serves as a warning that there are special considerations when running software in a Docker container. The problem description The customer is running PostgreSQL in Docker containers. They are not using the “official” image, but their own. Sometimes, under conditions […]

Of course most people do not want to corrupt their databases. These people will profit from avoiding the techniques used in this article. But for some, it might be useful to corrupt a database, for example if you want to test a tool or procedure that will be used to detect or fix data corruption. […]