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		mattyb 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 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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