Agreed, Postgres is a no-brainier for most (either low capital startups or open source) db applications

It's a great choice for higher budget applications too. At my job (public tech company, former startup), we use Postgres as our source of truth for just about everything that should go in an OLTP database (e.g. not analytics). I don't think there's another database product that would work as well for us as Postgres.

You’d think, but people certainly still choose MySQL these days, and without a really serious reason to other than familiarity.

By all means, use what you’re comfortable with but not having stuff like transactional DDL feels backwards at this point.

This is MariaDB, a MySQL fork.

OP is mentioning Postgres as a counterpoint.

The way they wrote a full sentence, that seems to be about Postgres, before introducing the word "Postgres" in the second sentence, does make it appear like they were confused and thought this thread was about that. (As the other logical reading would be that the first sentence is complimenting MariaDB before switching tack for sentence two. What they needed to do to not cause the confusion was to start with "Meanwhile, Postgres just gets...")

I took it as a way to intentionally misdirect the reader and then subvert their expectations. In other words, a joke.

I took it as it was written, word by word.

> I took it as a way to intentionally misdirect the reader and then subvert their expectations.

can confirm