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As a developer from that time, Postgres was more fiddly and unnecessarily complex. It was probably always an objectively better DBMS (except at replication) bu
by wvenable 9y ago
As a developer from that time, Postgres was more fiddly and unnecessarily complex. It was probably always an objectively better DBMS (except at replication) but MySQL was simpler and more predictable. And subsequently the entire ecosystem fit together better with MySQL (the LAMP stack as you mentioned).