Just because you haven't used it doesn't put the adoption of postgres on the same level as a still experimental programming language. It's a solid open source s

Just because you haven't used it doesn't put the adoption of postgres on the same level as a still experimental programming language. It's a solid open source solution in the run of the mill domain of RDBMS. It has a weird level of hype these days in certain pockets of the internet as mysql's hayday is long gone, and the whole "no sql" fervor is gone and now understood to have been oversold. I've worked on projects that were using it a decade ago. To this day at a different job I'm still building on it. Shipping it our products to customers, building internal tools on it, and we've have purchased a handful of self-hosted applications that have happened to run on it. You're generalizing from your own experience and assuming that's everyone's experience. Availability of dump and load tools to move from mysql don't really that much. MySQL isn't poison just because there is a new hotness. Keeping old shit on mysql, and using postgres for new things is a much more common migration strategy.