Tooling. While I agree psql tends to be more performant, when you're dealing with groups of people having good tools (and good documentation for those tools) tr

Tooling. While I agree psql tends to be more performant, when you're dealing with groups of people having good tools (and good documentation for those tools) trumps many considerations. As an example, the organization I work at is considering a move to psql, but our main barrier is a lack of good DB clients that are accessible to people who aren't software developers. The best we're aware of as far as DB GUIs for Postgres is pgAdmin, whereas if we're talking MySQL you have things like MySQL workbench, SQLPro, and a myriad of other applications available for whatever your operating system of choice is.