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		mahmud on Jan 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of the Postgres project Used my Christmas holiday converting my personal database library from MySQL to Postgres; I have about 10 projects depending on it. I am still ironing out the small details of the process, but the Lisp ORMs make things easier. Postgres, keep getting things right, please.

mattyb on Jan 5, 2010 [–]

Used my Christmas holiday converting my personal database library from MySQL to Postgres

Why?

mahmud on Jan 5, 2010 | [–]

Found out the hard way that MySQL not only runs fast, but also fails just as fast.

rbanffy on Jan 5, 2010 | | [–]

And it also takes your data with it.

All databases need backups, but I don't trust MySQL not to need the restores too.

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