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Was there something wrong with PostgreSQL before 2010? We used it and I thought it was pretty great (still do) but maybe I'm missing something.
by cgh 12y ago
Was there something wrong with PostgreSQL before 2010? We used it and I thought it was pretty great (still do) but maybe I'm missing something.
- jbooth 12y agoI wasn't using it, but it had a reputation for being slow and for the replication being considerably more broken than MySQL's -- apparently both of those have come a long way since.
- lmm 12y agoIt was hard to install for shared hosting, so most aspiring developers became familiar with MySQL first, with resulting network effects. The client was a bit harder to use (\x commands are harder to memorize than mysql's "SHOW TABLE" and felt sluggish in a local environment (something that's no longer the case AIUI)). Replication was a third party addon at the time, and had a reputation for being hairy, though I don't have direct experience.