because the time taken to setup the DB is the smallest amount of effort you'll put into it over the lifetime of the application. plus, its like 30 seconds to s

because the time taken to setup the DB is the smallest amount of effort you'll put into it over the lifetime of the application. plus, its like 30 seconds to setup: install, add a role, and maybe adjust hba.conf for access control settings for the local machine. the fact you were able to 'remove it and never use it on your servers' means you don't really need a DB like postgresql (or mariadb/mysql). you clearly don't have any data gravity problems if it was that easy and you were allowed to make that decision unilaterally.