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What does that answer of his even mean? That he prefers mysql ?
by Aduket 6y ago
What does that answer of his even mean? That he prefers mysql ?
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI interpret it as "I didn't think about it, picked the first thing that worked in the past, and don't wish to make an argument about it, so let it go".
- Lammy 6y agoI assume it means his bottleneck has always been somewhere higher up in the stack :)
- torgoguys 6y agoI think he means that if you use Postgres you are more likely to also be an evangelist for it. That doesn't tend to happen on the Mysql side. You don't hear people saying "you should switch from postgres to mysql" but you hear plenty of the opposite. Mysql works fine for most things and so that's what he used.
- thisisbrians 6y agoNow that I've thought about it more, it makes more sense. When used properly, Rails handles a bunch of the stuff that would make Postgres a better choice (like data validation, constraints, etc.)