I've never heard this, but I don't know any hardcore database folks either. Mostly it's just "I need a SQL database for my application and Postgres seems to be

I've never heard this, but I don't know any hardcore database folks either. Mostly it's just "I need a SQL database for my application and Postgres seems to be a good default" (note that I mostly roll with a Linux/Unix crowd, otherwise it'd probably be the same thing except s/Postgres/SQLServer).