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by maxloh 805 days ago
I know it is a matter of choice, but why was MySQL chosen instead of PostgreSQL? The latter seems to be more popular on Hacker News.
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tobinfekkes 805 days ago
Typically, things that are more popular on Hacker News are not most popular with the rest of the world.
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timsehn 805 days ago
> Why is Dolt MySQL flavored?

TLDR; Because go-mysql-server existed.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-03-28-have-postgres-want-d...

We have a Postgres version of Dolt in the works called Doltgres.

https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql

We might have a go-postgres-server package factored out eventually.

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