Great question! The basic answer is (from what I can tell) that postgres ships with sane defaults. Lots of little gotchas exist in mysql that experienced mysql

Great question! The basic answer is (from what I can tell) that postgres ships with sane defaults. Lots of little gotchas exist in mysql that experienced mysql dbas know to deal with and avoid. On the more sophisticated side, pgSQL seems to have a focus on being "Really Awesome For Experts" where MySQL seems to be focusing on "Being Easy to Get Started". I've been using pgSQL for my side project and for my "personal tooling" at work, and I can honestly say that it's just as easy for me as MySQL was for the same sort of things.