Recovery can restore service before it proves which acknowledged writes survived.
Fast return to traffic protects availability while full transaction accounting protects customer data integrity.
Who you’d be doing this for
“We’ve got customers asking why a completed workflow is missing after restart, and I don’t know which ones to replay.”
Kelechi Quaye · Backend Developer
Runs a workflow application whose PostgreSQL transactions trigger downstream fulfillment events.
What is at stake
Forty-six databases restarted, but 312 acknowledged writes still have uncertain durable status. You must weigh faster service restoration against evidence strong enough to account for customer transactions.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- restoration speed vs transaction certainty
- fleet capacity vs verification time
- automated recovery vs strict human review
- customer continuity vs irreversible history choices
Why Supabase
OrioleDB disaster recovery determines whether managed PostgreSQL projects retain the transaction history their applications already acknowledged.
Written with these in mind
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Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.