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Huh interesting. I've always preferred MySQL anyway though these days I obviously use Mariadb because Oracle.

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer MySQL over Postgres?

Good question. I think it's because I just rolled into it. It was not really a conscious decision and after a while I got used to its quirks. And it got significantly better over time too of course.

I started on Oracle, then spent many years on MySQL, and am now using mostly Postgres. I vastly prefer Postgres over MySQL. Mind you, I haven't really worked with MySQL in a few years now, so it might have improved a lot for all I know. The one thing that initially drew me to Postgres over MySQL was DDL being transactional.

Yeah I know MySQL started out as the "poor man's" lightweight alternative to Postgres.

But it always worked well for me. Like I said I got used to its quirks. I'm just surprised reading from this article that postgres has quirks too :)

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