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I'm currently in the process of trying to get the team at my new workplace to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. They chose it before I started and are now comp
by jcadam 9y ago
I'm currently in the process of trying to get the team at my new workplace to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. They chose it before I started and are now complaining about features it lacks (but Postgres has. Actually, some of the things they're complaining about can be done with MySQL, if only they knew how to use it, or knew enough to run a non-ancient version of it).
MySQL just seems like the amateurish "I don't know about databases but I need one" choice.
- cwyers 9y agoMySQL has several features Postgres doesn't have, and there's tradeoffs between them. As a bonus, choosing MySQL doesn't make you smugly dismiss everyone else's database choice, unlike some other databases.
- jcadam 9y ago> As a bonus, choosing MySQL doesn't make you smugly dismiss everyone else's database choice, unlike some other databases. Maybe, but in my case I was smugly dismissive of others before I ever encountered Postgres.