Both true, although I can completely understand why devs went with MySQL over PostgreSQL at that time. I remember that during the same time period that MySQL w

Both true, although I can completely understand why devs went with MySQL over PostgreSQL at that time. I remember that during the same time period that MySQL was drawing seemingly endless criticism for generally poor RDBMS behavior (3.x and 4.x), PostgreSQL was notorious for having poor performance due to insanely undersized default settings. Like out of the box it was sized to run with at most 10 MB of RAM or similar that was just unrealistic. I also remember it also had a lot of quirks and missing features prior to v8. I assume it was leftover cruft from Ingres, but I remember PostgreSQL v6 and v7 being unreasonably complicated to get configured just because the defaults were so off reality. One thing you can say about PostgreSQL, though, is that it's developers don't rest on their heels. Every major release packs in a ton of new features. They've gone from being fairly low or middling on the feature set to being pretty near the top. Even point releases have me saying, "Wow, that's really nice to have."