Ignoring for a moment that postgres was my example, but not my point: choose what you can wrap you head around. I used postgres successfully in multiple project

Ignoring for a moment that postgres was my example, but not my point: choose what you can wrap you head around. I used postgres successfully in multiple projects an no one ever had a big problem with it. I've seen MySQL setups burning sky-high because of some Gotchas the team ran into. That doesn't make either of those bad. The underlying issue is that (except for the most trivial cases), investing time in properly operating and using your database is a huge gain that many young companies ignore. 6 Month later, they have a burning datastore at hand that they don't know how to fix.