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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by kstrauser on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:29PM (#29909955)
Job security. I can’t think of any technical reasons.
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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by ars on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:04PM (#29911383)
Other way around - Postges will give you more job security, since it's rarer and takes more time and work to administer.

People use MySQL because it's easy, and they want to spend their effort in other places.

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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by kstrauser on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:46PM (#29911861)
That's like saying Python is rarer than JavaScript. Even if it's true, it's not actually rare at all.

In the last 6 years, I've spent approximately 2 hours administering PostgreSQL, and I'd be the one who had to do it.

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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by jiggawatts on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @03:05PM (#29912059)
It’s “easy” until it silently shreds data and gets your org hacked through truncation attacks.

Don’t confuse lazy with easy.

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