i believe one of the main reasons for mysql's popularity is that it is available by default with many hosting providers who provide PHP based hosting for a very

i believe one of the main reasons for mysql's popularity is that it is available by default with many hosting providers who provide PHP based hosting for a very cheap price. These are low-medium volume sites developed by a small teams. They just don't need or care about the benefits of using a better database like 'postgres'. IMHO, postgres developers and support organizations need to work with hosting companies to make postgres available along with myql.