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I've been using postgres in production situations since 1998, at 4-5 different companies. I've never had a problem with it. OTOH, the many times I've tried to
by apinstein 17y ago
I've been using postgres in production situations since 1998, at 4-5 different companies. I've never had a problem with it.
OTOH, the many times I've tried to use mysql I've run into gotchas even in development that were unexpected and obnoxious. Also, I don't really like the dual gpl/commercial license thing.
My faves about Postgres:
- Very mature OSS development community with amazing devs/community support
- Ridiculously stable
- BSD license
- I practically never run into a postgres bug.
- GIS support
- ltree data type (native trees with powerful query syntax)
- Clustered indexes
- Very fast under load
- Simple to manage
- Lots of tuning options
To sum up, I've used it forever and it's never caused me a problem. I am a postgres fanboy.