How Linear’s Biggest Outage Happened: A PostgreSQL Truncate Disaster and Recovery Walkthrough

The article details Linear's most severe five‑year outage caused by an accidental TRUNCATE CASCADE on a PostgreSQL table, walks through the minute‑by‑minute timeline, explains why CI checks missed the error, and outlines the recovery steps and post‑mortem lessons for future database safety.

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How Linear’s Biggest Outage Happened: A PostgreSQL Truncate Disaster and Recovery Walkthrough

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Feb 2, 2017 · Operations

GitLab.com Database Disaster: How a Mistyped rm Command Wiped 300GB and What We Learned

GitLab.com suffered a catastrophic database outage on February 1, 2017 when an exhausted operator mistakenly ran a destructive rm command on the wrong server, wiping most production data; the incident’s timeline, root causes, recovery steps, and lessons learned are detailed in this post‑mortem.

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GitLab.com Database Disaster: How a Mistyped rm Command Wiped 300GB and What We Learned