[briandear]

I am interested as well — this is the first time I have ever heard anyone, without being under duress, switching to MySQL from PG. I would hope the reason is technical, but given it’s MySQL we’re talking about, it was likely a political decision.

[socksy]

This was a quite popular write-up of such a switch by a major company: https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

With the HN comments being here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585