But at least Postgres has much better tools for learning about the query plans it might use. The Postgres output of “EXPLAIN” is much much better than MySQL. I

But at least Postgres has much better tools for learning about the query plans it might use. The Postgres output of “EXPLAIN” is much much better than MySQL. It’s a shame that almost every job I worked at uses MySQL and not Postgres. But that could be because those companies all got their start like a decade or more ago when Postgres was not as well known.