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by mosselman 1042 days ago
What kinds of things do you need to do for MySQL? I’ve always run postgres, that is why I ask.
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One example of the sort of trivia that's burned into my brain: You never want to use the utf8 encoding. It's broken. What everyone else calls utf8 MySQL calls "utf8mb4". MySQL is filled to the brim with this sort of thing.