I have been using Postgres for 10 years on dozens of projects and never felt the pain you're (vaguely) describing. I have also set up MariaDB, Percona, MySQL,

I have been using Postgres for 10 years on dozens of projects and never felt the pain you're (vaguely) describing. I have also set up MariaDB, Percona, MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. All were roughly the same time/difficulty. Scaling and clustering differs wildly between them, but initial setup is similar. Also, rejecting a DB for initial setup is optimizing for the wrong thing. Your company can lose, at most, a day struggling with setup, but it can lose millions by dealing with poor security, lacking features, or outages. It sounds like you need to treat your servers like cattle instead of pets, too[1]. 1. https://www.hava.io/blog/cattle-vs-pets-devops-explained https://www.hava.io/blog/cattle-vs-pets-devops-explained