Back when I was still doing web development, I had a big stack of things I had to deal with to actually get html on somebody's screen. Most of them were slightl

Back when I was still doing web development, I had a big stack of things I had to deal with to actually get html on somebody's screen. Most of them were slightly annoying to deal with and I would often push them back to the one day a week I reserved to futz with annoying little details. But working with Postgres was always a joy. Everything seemed to be designed in a logical, straightforward way and worked the first time without any hacks or workarounds. It always felt like there was so much untapped potential humming there behind the prompt. Eventually my company switched to Oracle and DB hacking quickly became another one of those annoying things.