Comment by exabrial

The real problem is, I'm so danged familiar with the MySQL toolset.

I've fixed absolutely terrifying replication issues, include a monster split brain where we had to hand pick off transactions and replay them against the new master. We've written a binlog parsing as an event source to clear application caching. I can talk to you about how locking works, when it doesn't (phantom locks anyone?), how events work (and will fail) and many other things I never set out to learn but just sort of had to.

While I'd love to "just use Postgres" I feel the tool you know is perhaps the better choice. From the fandom online, it's overall probably the better DBMS, but I would just be useless in a Postgres world right now. Sorta strapped my saddle to the wrong start unfortunately.