I get the Postgres love but as someone who’s been doing mysql for a long time I found postgres really hard to use. Like even setting it up on Mac was a pain in

I get the Postgres love but as someone who’s been doing mysql for a long time I found postgres really hard to use. Like even setting it up on Mac was a pain in the ass. How do I create a new db? Why is pgcli not as friendly as mysqlcli? After 2 weeks of head bashing and lots of stack overflow reading I gave up and went back to good ol MySQL. For ease of use for a new comer, mysql seems to have nicer tooling and out of box use. I’ve worked with mysql on sites with millions of daily active users and it hasn’t been a problem. Snappy 10ms queries for most things. I guess one really needs to learn ANALYZE and do the necessary index tuning. I’m just saying, use the tool you’re most comfortable with, has good ecosystem and gets the job done. For some it’s PGSQL, for some it’s MySQL, for others it could be the paid ones. MySQl8 is pretty solid nowadays. There is no universal “best”, just as there is no “best” car. All about trade offs.