• rhabarba
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    106 days ago

    MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      106 days ago

      Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company

      • @sugar_in_your_tea
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        66 days ago

        My coworker used to work with Oracle at his last job, and he took an architect position at my company near the start of development. There’s a reason we use Postgres at our org…

      • rhabarba
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        56 days ago

        Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          46 days ago

          True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.

          But if you’re on MySQL it’s a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.

          • rhabarba
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            36 days ago

            I rewrote the last remaining MySQL-based software of mine this year because I didn’t want to have MariaDB just for this one tool. Everything else had already been migrated. PostgreSQL is much faster in my tests.