Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?

Re:Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MyS... by justinjlynn on Saturday October 17, 2020 @07:31PM (#24814283)

sigh

Must you really draw conclusions about the suitability of PostgreSQL or MySQL for all users based on your limited perspective/niche needs?

> If you're a developer, a database is just a database.

[screams internally]

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Re:Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MyS... by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @08:06PM (#24814518)

Yeah I mean as a developer I’ve never had the luxury to ignore storage concerns.

At bigger companies they might abstract it out but your gonna get a slow query one day and be tuning sql or something.

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Re:Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MyS... by redis_mlc on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:34PM (#24815106)

> I’ve never had the luxury to ignore storage concerns

You're way out of date.

There's no storage concerns with the default since 2010 in MySQL, Innodb:

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