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PostgreSQL's fame is kind of a paradox: it's so good because everyone uses PostgreSQL because it's so good. With the variety and scale of applications PostgreS

• hombre_fatal 4y ago
  > it's so good because everyone uses PostgreSQL because it's so good Is it really a circular relationship if the starting premise is "people use it because it's good"?
• fdr 4y ago
  Wasn't always this way...even not that long ago. Back when Heroku was getting serious about building up the Postgres service (I helped some...this is circa 2010) the common question was "that's weird, why not MySQL, isn't that how most Rails applications are run?" RDS only had a MySQL product for a very long time, and that followed from market demand. Tutorials for Rails were generally written with MySQL. Hot standby (streaming replication) was a key feature to arrive around then. Also, I'd like to think a lot of the work Heroku did to engineer Heroku Postgres, and market it, contributed much better Postgres support in web frameworks and their affiliated ORMs in those critical years from 2010-2014, where encountering headwinds in defects in Postgres support for Rails, Node, etc was common. When RDS came around with their Postgres offering, I'd say at that point, it could be said that Postgres entered a new stage: it was no longer reflexive for engineers to shrug their shoulders at shaky Postgres support in drivers/ORMs/etc like they did before that.
• motleydev 4y ago
  We talked about it in this video, about how it's grown the way it has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryj5c8zLF50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryj5c8zLF50