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Comment by hyperionultra

1 day ago

Why postgre instead of classic mysql?

MySQL does not let you have transactional DDL statements (alter, create, index etc).

If you're building anything serious and your data integrity is important, use Postgres.

Postgres is much stricter, and always was. MySQL tried to introduce several strict modes to mitigate the problems that they had, but I would always recommend to use Postgres.

Why mysql instead of postgres should be the right question nowadays.

Postgres isn't a newcomer any more. For most projects that I see it's the default and the "classic" already.