me: can i do this
mysql docs: sure!
me: *tries it, sees it break horribly*
me: mysql i thought you said i could do this
some blogpost from percona or stackoverflow answer from someone who has broken mysql in the same way: oh. oh yeah, THAT? no
(my favorite* recent example of this is silent coercion of bigints to fit into an int column that just throws a warning instead of an error by default lol)
postgres is not flawless, but it has a level of care about it i <3