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IMO it was when Oracle bought MySQL and effectively killed development. MySQL still lives on with MariaDB I suppose, but in the years since Postgres has leapfrogged it in terms of functionality.

[jacques_chester]

I'm a PostgreSQL fan, but Oracle are investing in MySQL development, but their flavour of open source compliance is tarballing.

5.6 had some pretty critical improvements, especially to the query planner.