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Will PocketBase Survive?

61 pointsby alxjsn5 months ago

4 comments

vunderba5 months ago
I really like Pocketbase as a simpler and locally hosted Firebase&#x2F;Supabase alternative (yes I know Supabase can be self-hosted but its pretty heavyweight) except for one major disadvantage - the lack of a NULL primitive type.<p>There&#x27;s no ability to set null as a value of an item despite null being a perfectly valid data type in SQLite (which is what Pocketbase uses).<p>Having to arbitrarily assign a MAGIC CONSTANT value (like -1 for example) to represent a &quot;lack of information&quot; in a column is kludgy at best, and impossible at worst - e.g. if all floating point values have meaning in a column, you&#x27;re out of luck. The only workaround is to create an unnecessary additional boolean column isNumFilled to indicate if the data in the numerical column is valid.
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jasfi5 months ago
For a project with 42.2K stars I thought there would be sponsors by now.
demarq5 months ago
The answer from the maintainer is PERFECT.<p>This is the situation for a lot of open source projects.
ianschmitz5 months ago
(2023)
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