People did custom scripting or used third party tools for easy failover before 9.2/9.3. What PostgreSQL has improved the last years is simplicity of setting up

People did custom scripting or used third party tools for easy failover before 9.2/9.3. What PostgreSQL has improved the last years is simplicity of setting up replication and speed of failover. > with all due respect, is this the reason why startups still default to mysql over postgres ? I do not these particular issues. But if we go back before streaming replication (when people had to transfer WAL files with rsync) then I am pretty sure this was part of the reason for why small companies chose MySQL over PostgreSQL: