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[โ€“] sobchak@programming.dev 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

MySQL always sucked ass.

PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.

Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.

MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.