Having those absolute links hard-coded in the database may prevent them to be correctly resolved later.
Based on the available documentation:
ROOT_URL: %(PROTOCOL)s://%(DOMAIN)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/: Overwrite the automatically generated public URL. This is useful if the internal and the external URL don't match (e.g. in Docker).
Which seems to be something that can change over time and should not end up in the DB!
Having those absolute links hard-coded in the database may prevent them to be correctly resolved later. Based on the available documentation:
Which seems to be something that can change over time and should not end up in the DB!