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Two people editing the same row
Airtable's update endpoint has no precondition parameter, so the second writer silently wins and both get a 200. Postgres specifies the collision behaviour in chapter 13 of its manual, before you write a line of code.
Certificates on somebody else's schedule
Webflow connects up to 50 domains to one site but cannot publish different pages to different domains, and each extra site needs its own plan from $15/mo. Cloudflare for SaaS includes 100 custom hostnames and charges $0.10 after that. The difference is who holds the ACME account.
The record someone deleted last Tuesday
Airtable keeps record revision history for 2 weeks on Free and 3 years on Enterprise Scale, but it is view-only: no export, no API endpoint, and a restored snapshot arrives without it. On Postgres the change log is a table you wrote.
Where your customer data physically sits
Airtable lists European data residency only on Enterprise Scale, with no published price. Supabase pins a project to one of seventeen specific AWS regions at no cost. The difference is who gets to answer when a client's lawyer asks.
Search that scans every row
Airtable evaluates filterByFormula against every record, caps a page at 100 records and allows 5 requests per second per base, so one pass over a 50,000-record table costs 500 requests. A Postgres GIN index answers the same question without the scan.
Your automations competing with your customers
Airtable caps a base at 5 requests per second across every caller, and a Team workspace that passes 100,000 calls in a month drops to 2 per second until the calendar flips. Postgres lets you give the batch job its own connection limit and leave the customer path alone.
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