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A comment on Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Po... by connormcd on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:47PM (#35911644)
(Full disclosure, I work for Oracle)

Anyone who says no investment has been into MySQL I suspect never took the time to read the features/release notes for MySQL 8

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html

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Re:Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Po... by tapoxi on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:55PM (#35911707)
Didn't 8 ship 5 years ago?
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Re:Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Po... by evanelias on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:30AM (#35911924)
Their release model changed with MySQL 8 -- they do rolling point releases every quarter with new features sprinkled in as they're ready. Quite a few new major features have been released that way, including INSTANT alters, parallel index builds, CLONE plugin, major changes to how UNDO logs are sized... it's more like Windows 10's release model.

Very recently they've mentioned they'll be changing this again to have separate LTS releases, which is a positive change stability-wise.

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Re:Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Po... by ksec on Saturday May 13, 2023 @01:45AM (#35925944)
Really wish they bump up the version number or something. It makes discussions with MySQL a lot easier.
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Re:Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Po... by JohnBooty on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:18PM (#35925140)
Well, you got me there. It stagnated for so long relative to others that I didn't realize the pace had picked up in a big way.
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