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I love Postgres in 2026, but it really was not a viable enterprise option before 2010. MySQL had decent binlog replication starting in 2000 which made up for a
by tomnipotent 6mo ago
I love Postgres in 2026, but it really was not a viable enterprise option before 2010. MySQL had decent binlog replication starting in 2000 which made up for a lot of the horrible warts it had.
- bombcar 6mo agomysql was great in 2000 if you knew all the foot guns to avoid and set it up correctly (and not just what sounded correct).
- tomnipotent 6mo agoNot to mention there was Percona, and both Google & Facebook contributed a number of patches that made monitoring MySQL top notch (such as finding slow running queries, unused indexes, locks etc.).