[floating-io]

My reason has been relative simplicity. PostgreSQL comes off as much more complex (though whether that is actually true is probably dependent on what you're doing with it).

I'm also not working with super-high-performance production-critical loads, though, so grain of salt and all that.

[ReptileMan]

Mysql is mercurial, Postgres is git. With mysql everything comes somewhat intuitive. Postgres is antiintutive in a lot of places. Probably the people that created it didn't realize that the complexity of Oracle was not needed but was a job program for expensive consultants /s

[aguaviva]

My own take:

"With MySQL everything seems somewhat more intuitive at first, until it doesn't. Postgres seems antiintutive in some ways at first, until it isn't."