you guys we all are like "hmm FORMAL LANGUAGES hmm TYPES hmm COOL AND STRICT TYPE SYSTEMS hmm NEAT AND BRIEF
AND ACCURATE SOFTWARE DESIGN" on the paper but we are like "hell yes i am going to use the postgres table to store this little local variable between various transactions across different nodes because i actually didn't think i'd ever need that but there's like 20000 loc that is already written behind so no that's not gonna hurt much".

a little exaggerating. only a little.