Comment by overfeed
8 hours ago
> Maybe you don't remember Postgres in the early 2000s
Postgres was already mature by the early 2000s - it was started in 1986 by a veteran who had written Postgres' spiritual predecessor in the 70's (Ingress). So no, Postgres didn't have amateur-hour data loss bugs in the early 2000s. What Postgres was missing out of the box were some features, like replication.
> So no, Postgres didn't have amateur-hour data loss bugs in the early 2000s.
Well not until you'd been running it for a while and it ran out of tuples at least.
My argument wasn't that Pg was bug-free... In any case, Postgres was always superior to MySQL, whose default engine would silently truncate your data.
The MyISAM days were the wild west.