[MisterOctober]

Postgres has really picked up steam with enterprise and institutional users in my neck of the woods also [southwestern US]. The emphasis on role-based security and, lately, the ability to handle JSON, geolocation data, etc [plus finally getting some overdue query features like ROLLUP] have made some folks who previously swore by SQL Server or Oracle take it more seriously as an option for inhouse systems.

I see a fair number of local job postings that specify Postgres experience.

[snaky]

Yes, the most of migrations to PostgreSQL is not from MySQL, but from Oracle.