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		metadat 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime What is the [^13] notation? Is it different than a *?

Izkata 7 months ago [–]

They copy/pasted from the article, that's how they're formatting footnote links. Article has 15 footnotes and that's number 13.

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