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etchalon on Aug 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: When did Postgres become cool?

Was it that Postgres became cool or that MySQL became unreliable post-Oracle and developers were looking for an alternative?

gtowey on Aug 9, 2023 [–]

Developers were afraid it would become a tool for Oracle to monetize and trap people in their ecosystem. That never really happened and they have actually done some really good development work on it.

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