In a previous life, the lax by default approach of MySQL bit us hard on a regular basis; a number of discrepancies vs. reasonable expectation were had. At the t

In a previous life, the lax by default approach of MySQL bit us hard on a regular basis; a number of discrepancies vs. reasonable expectation were had. At the time I left, they were working on migrating toward Postgres, and reports suggest they are extremely happy with pg.