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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:06:31 UTC muesli

   "Today was my last day at Oracle, and thus also in the MySQL team. [...] MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead."

   😅

   https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-12-05-16-41_leaving_mysql.html

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:10:46 UTC muesli

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     I guess that's one way to ensure future-self will never make the mistake to work for Oracle again...

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:15:50 UTC muesli

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     I should probably also add that I couldn't agree more. MySQL/MariaDB is fine until it absolutely isn't, and that's typically the point where it's also huge pita to migrate away from it.

   • Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:25:36 UTC Steinar Bang

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom I discovered PostgreSQL in 2001.

     After that, all through the 00s and the early 10s it continued to puzzle me that MySQL had so much mindshare on the opensource/free software movement(s) and PostgreSQL had so little...?

     But maybe things have started to turn...?

   • sexybiggetje (sexybiggetje@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:36:22 UTC sexybiggetje

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom
     I have to say, while MySQL is not great, I've had worse problems with PostgreSQL. So might even look at other options if that's the advice 😂

   • Aaron Kalin (He/Him) (martinisoft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 18:51:03 UTC Aaron Kalin (He/Him)

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom I switched over to Postgres exclusively years back from MySQL. Granted MySQL still has MASSIVE advantage over Postgres when it comes to the tooling. You still have to bring your own failover, backup, and replication solutions. MySQL had this on lock a decade ago even if it wasn't 100% reliable.

   • Michela Marie 🇨🇦 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 20:27:03 UTC Michela Marie 🇨🇦

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom Truly, apart from a recent Galera cluster mess after a power outage, I’ve never had any issues with MySQL related to it’s design or bugs, etc. The Galera issue may have been caused by something else as well. I’ve been using MySQL and MariaDB on many mission-critical projects at work over many years. It’s been really good. I’ve used PostgreSQL too, and it also works well, thought it takes a lot of getting used to, coming from MySQL, and as was pointed out, does not have as many tools.