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Re:PostgreSQL for Everything by rwultsch on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:46AM (#49361545)
"MySQL was also potentially faster as it did not implement all features of the SQL standard. "

This is a not great start. I assume it refers to MyISAM which has not been relevant for over a decade at this point. InnoDB made different design than PG decisions and was (and perhaps still is) faster at point lookups.

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Re:PostgreSQL for Everything by radiospiel on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:59AM (#49361728)
Well, the poster explicitly talks about 2003 here: „ In 2003, MySQL was much more widely used than PostgreSQL. MySQL was also potentially faster as it did not implement all features of the SQL standard“
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Re:PostgreSQL for Everything by browningstreet on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:11AM (#49361884)
At the time, MySQL was also the default for every PHP backed webhost provider. That's the market they lost. They're the Perl of DBs.
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Re:PostgreSQL for Everything by actionfromafar on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:46AM (#49362373)
Didn't very early mysql play fast and loose with the concept of actually syncing to disk? That was also fast. Web scale fast. :)
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