In my cases I found that mysql was faster for “select * from <table> where <unique key>=<blah>” — but for anything more complicated than that, postgres won (adm

In my cases I found that mysql was faster for “select * from <table> where <unique key>=<blah>” — but for anything more complicated than that, postgres won (admittedly I haven’t checked recently - it was around 10 years ago that my 500-concurrent-user site was melting mysql, so I switched to postgres, which is now happy with 15,000 concurrent users - I’m mostly just responding to “historically more performant”)