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Funnily enough, I have not been using MySQL for the last 10 years either, because I switched to Postgres and never went back.

Fair, but why comment on MySQL's supposed deficiencies if your knowledge of it is so out-of-date?

But vanilla PG didn't get good master / slave feature until "recently" so you were running without replicas in the last 10 years?

Your link is from 9 years ago.

This happens when someone asks a versus question on a Sunday.

The release from 9 years ago was not even close to what MySQL was offering at the time.