Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
by PunchyHamster on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:02PM
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Once you have an app, a lot of data, and actual problems, it's far easier to pick the right alternative.
PostgreSQL is good enough to get to medium sized with nearly every use case. Once you are there, you have the use case and the test data to test any alternative for it well, rather than trying to guess beforehand what you actually need.
The advice is basically "PostgreSQL is probably good enough for whatever you're building now, and you should only look for other solution once you are big enough that it stops being that"
Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
by fuzzzerd on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:25AM
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Could make the same argument for SQLite, the threshold is lower, but similarly you can pretty far with it. Then decide what's next, once you're out growing it.
PostgreSQL is good enough to get to medium sized with nearly every use case. Once you are there, you have the use case and the test data to test any alternative for it well, rather than trying to guess beforehand what you actually need.
The advice is basically "PostgreSQL is probably good enough for whatever you're building now, and you should only look for other solution once you are big enough that it stops being that"