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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by axegon_ on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:27PM (#24947066)
Apart from being the most mature relational database, I would argue the code that runs it. It's pure poetry. I am yet to see code this clean anywhere. Just opening any source code file at random[1] will show you exactly what I mean.

[1] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by systemvoltage on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:34PM (#24947100)
Let's not get carried away. It is very much debatable which database is "most mature".

Here is some discussions about how Postgres compares with Oracle DB (if $ is not an issue), it is often said that Postgres is a Cessna whereas Oracle DB is like a Fighter Jet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24582937

Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by ivolimmen on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:32AM (#24949891)
I have been working with postgres for multiple years and in one project I needed to work with oracle. I actually ran into a bug in oracle db and they did not listen to us because we where a small company. We where working for a very large customer and asked that company to complain on our behalf at oracle. They they finally fixed it. Project was a large GIS project. I never had a say in the choice of database otherwise I would have chosen postgres. Oracle regularly crashed on complex spacial queries. At some point I left te company just to stop trying to fix that product. I think the only way of fixing the problem was a rewrite of the product that would use postgres. I hope I never work with oracle products in my life again.
Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by axegon_ on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:40PM (#24947135)
I've never had the opportunity to test Oracle DB at large, just some minor playing around with 12c many many years ago so I don't have an accurate view. That said, given my experience with other Oracle products and the fighter jet analogy... De omnibus dibutandum est...
Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by craigkerstiens on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:23PM (#24947438)
Fully agree with this. I once heard it stated by someone "I don't like writing C, but I don't mind at all writing Postgres C". It is definitely a quality codebase and the credit goes to a pretty small set of maintainers over the years.