• rhabarba
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    16 days ago

    I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.

    • subignition
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      56 days ago

      I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

      • 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

          • @[email protected]
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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.