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Sorry but MySQL was not really “better” than Postgres.

I never understood back then why MySQL was the default choice for so many people.



Many claim that MySQL with default configs had various advantages over postgres with default config and that it had a far better replication story


MySQL would also silently lose your data


You win some you lose some




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