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Postgres was my first, and the Postgres docs were foundational for someone like me. Tried MySQL a couple years later, and every day I used it I found a new rea
by darksaints 6y ago
Postgres was my first, and the Postgres docs were foundational for someone like me.
Tried MySQL a couple years later, and every day I used it I found a new reason to never use it again.
- axegon_ 6y agoIf you liked the docs, you should definitely check out the source code. It's not just poetry by C standards, it's poetry by Shakespearean standards. Hands down the best code I've ever seen. What makes it more astonishing is that it's a product of relatively small community scattered around the globe.
- spiralx 6y agoI remember reading the MySQL developers justifications for why transactions weren't important along with articles such as these back in the 00s https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html https://fromdual.com/mysql-limitations https://fromdual.com/mysql-limitations and deciding a database that treats 1/0 as NULL and allows inserting February 31st as a valid date wasn't worth bothering with.