This just doesn't add up to me.<p>5500 is an odd number (not power of two) which rules out some kind of overflow issue.<p>Was this some kind of fixed size database? Why would it have crashed when storing 5500 rows?<p>Maybe storing that many hit a timeout, and maybe they were stored outside a transaction, hence leaving the system in an inconsistent state? But that wouldn't explain the database shutting down.<p>Maybe they were trying to store 5500 but hit a limit at 4096 before getting there?<p>I feel something is lost in translation (between nerds and non nerds) in the explanation for this outage.