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by kalleboo 4722 days ago
These are the cool practical reasons to switch from MySQL to Postgres that I so rarely see (usually the reasons are more ad hominem and handwavy).
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Really? There are loads of practical arguments: The incredibly rich type system (hello array/schemaless columns), indexes (partial indexes, several different types to choose from), language integration (write index functions in javascript/python/ruby/c), foreign data wrappers (connect pg to mysql/mongodb/etc) to name but a few.
I don't doubt they exist, it's just in the comments on HN, usually the only thing that's touted is that "it's not MySQL" in that it doesn't have the quirks MySQL does (in regards to silently munging data types, etc). Sometimes performance/scalability is also discussed.