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Re:PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA by cortesoft on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:47PM (#45337771)
> At this point I'm not sure why anyone would choose MySQL

Because I have used MySQL for over 20 years and it is what I know!

Re:PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA by jedberg on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:01PM (#45337937)
Fair enough, but I assume most of that is in the administration of MySQL? Which is all now abstracted away by the cloud vendors.

If you're running it yourself I could see why you'd do that, but if you're mostly just using it now, Postgres can do all the same things in the database pretty much the same way, plus a whole lot more.

Re:PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA by cortesoft on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:09PM (#45338801)
Its both operating MySQL and creating applications that use it.

Additionally, almost all my workloads run in our own datacenters, so I haven't yet been able to offload the administration bits to the cloud.