This

ISS, as in: you get shot into space?

Oh, so they can’t get autonomous driving to work, thus the next step is to get people who are sleeping to steer the cars remotely

This is the way.

Luckily the postgresql docs have links for exactly that

If the electrical connections are still intact, you can use some glue or tape to stabilize it, to prevent it from breaking further.

To prevent it in the future: always pull cables out by the plug, never pull on the cable itself.

That sounds super familiar :D

Anyway, a prototype is not a bad thing, if the managers know the difference. It’s easier said than done to “do it right the first time” if you don’t know how / what to build. Prototypes can be built to validate hypotheses and generally figure out what works, then build the real thing afterwards.