i chose postgres over mysql at my current job because there was an easy to use backup scripts (wal-e) available at the time and i didn't see anything comparable

i chose postgres over mysql at my current job because there was an easy to use backup scripts (wal-e) available at the time and i didn't see anything comparable for mysql. so we have a hot slave and also streaming backups constantly to s3 and a full base backup every week and this with very minimal work. [https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e] i actually regret not using mysql because mysql at the time supported out of the box logical replication which would make database upgrades easier. we haven't upgraded our postgres DB boxes because it would involve a lot of pain. whereas if we were using mysql we probably would just upgrade the slaves and wait for a failure.