2. is what pushed most people over to PostgreSQL. That was the main impetus. Fortunate that, as MySQL is utter garbage, having silently corrupted data for a ver

2. is what pushed most people over to PostgreSQL. That was the main impetus. Fortunate that, as MySQL is utter garbage, having silently corrupted data for a very long time, not being ANSI SQL compliant for a very long time, and the developers being unable to come up with one unified storage engine to handle many different loads efficiently, like Oracle can. I was not one of those people though, but lucky enough to have had PostgreSQL running on DEC Alpha and GNU/Linux (Red Hat) as the core tool for the relational database course while I was getting my degree in computer science / information technology. A whole semester spent at the psql prompt doing SQL and programming the web application talking to it in PHP. That was back in the 20th century.