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That's funny, I must have been an outlier then. I've been using Postgres since 1998, and I tried getting MySQL up first. There was more documentation available
by bostik 5y ago
That's funny, I must have been an outlier then.
I've been using Postgres since 1998, and I tried getting MySQL up first. There was more documentation available for the latter, so it should have been simple. Failed. It just didn't work.
Out of frustration I then tried Postgres, because I just wanted a decent database for my project. It was surprisingly easy, I only had to learn about pg_hba.conf to get to a functional state. Everything else was in place out of the box.
I've been a happy user ever since. MySQL may have had the mindshare (thanks to prevalence of LAMP) but everything outside the magic happy path was confusing and fragile.
- ahoka 5y agoNo one cares what was in 1998, that's the whole point of this discussion. Postgres devs kept digging their heads into sand for many years, saying that high availability is somehow not the task of the database. In reality only the datastores need to be HA/durable in an otherwise stateless architecture.