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I know it is a matter of choice, but why was MySQL chosen instead of PostgreSQL? The latter seems to be more popular on Hacker News.
by maxloh 3y ago
I know it is a matter of choice, but why was MySQL chosen instead of PostgreSQL? The latter seems to be more popular on Hacker News.
- tobinfekkes 3y agoTypically, things that are more popular on Hacker News are not most popular with the rest of the world.
- timsehn 3y ago> Why is Dolt MySQL flavored? TLDR; Because go-mysql-server existed. https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-03-28-have-postgres-want-dolt/#why-is-dolt-mysql-flavored-anyway https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-03-28-have-postgres-want-d... We have a Postgres version of Dolt in the works called Doltgres. https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql We might have a go-postgres-server package factored out eventually.