"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, z = $4 WHERE y = $3 RETURNING *",
does not do the same as
"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, y = $3, z = $4 RETURNING *",
It’s 2 am and my mind blanked out the WHERE, and just wanted the numbers neatly in order of 1234.
idiot.
FML.
Remember that guy who just started that week and was following instructions on how to set up his dev environment, and in the walkthrough docs they supplied the production credentials and then went on about how to recreate the dev environment from scratch.
That was not a good day for the new guy, or the company.
https://www.theregister.com/2017/06/05/dev_accidentally_nuked_production_database_was_allegedly_instantly_fired/
(Not linking to the original Reddit post on general principles)