• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Isn’t that the point of Postgresql. It’s basically an open source version of MySQL.

    I’m sure there are some proprietary nonsense that MySQL has, but I’ve never needed it in 17 years

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      7 hours ago

      Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

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        1 hour ago

        MySQL always sucked ass.

        PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.

        Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.

        MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.