Around 2001 Postgres was more reliable than MySQL and more advanced in many ways, but it did have some odd omissions which made it fair to describe it as immatu

Around 2001 Postgres was more reliable than MySQL and more advanced in many ways, but it did have some odd omissions which made it fair to describe it as immature. For example if you wanted to drop a column you had to create a new table and rename it over the old one.