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What kind of tooling does MariaDB/MySQL have that you miss when using Postgres? I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the ecosystem as I am with Postgres.
by zinclozenge 4y ago
What kind of tooling does MariaDB/MySQL have that you miss when using Postgres? I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the ecosystem as I am with Postgres.
- JeremyNT 4y agoI'm curious too, but my suspicion is that it's "the devil you know" at play here. If you work with a tech for long enough you get the tooling "figured out" and things can feel like second nature. Maybe some alternative has equally "good" tooling (for however you define "good") but it may have slightly different quirks, strengths, and weaknesses. The fact that you have to figure that stuff out is itself a negative.
- mschuster91 4y ago> What kind of tooling does MariaDB/MySQL have that you miss when using Postgres? Easy upgrades? With MySQL it has never been more involved than running apt-get dist-upgrade/docker rm mysql && docker run mysql/kubectl deploy, depending on the stack. Downtimes of less than two minutes. In contrast, PostgreSQL is such a hassle to upgrade that I only do it when forced to by an application dropping support for the current major version.
- Conan_Kudo 4y agoThis 100%. I love PostgreSQL, but I rolled out MariaDB for my personal servers because I like not spending time doing weird things for upgrading the database software.
- nophunphil 4y agoNot tooling, but the big one for me is the ability to reorder columns via ALTER statements.