Comment by Scramblejams

> I've always wondered why Postgres is so insanely popular.

Just another anecdote: MySQL lost data for me (2004). I spent some time evaluating the projects and Postgres’ development process seemed much more mature — methodical, careful, and focused on correctness. Boring, which I loved.

I didn’t need whatever perf advantage MySQL had so I switched to Postgres and never looked back. And then the Oracle drama and Monty’s behavior around it — not saying he was wrong or right, but it was the opposite of boring — just reinforced my decision.

I like to play with new tech in various spots of the stack, but for filesystems and databases I go boring all the way.