Moving away from MySQL (2010 the year for package builds?)

[William Siegrist]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Jan 5, 2010, at 18:40, William Siegrist wrote:
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>> It would end up being served by postgres most likely. We're moving away from MySQL. 
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> Why, out of curiosity? I know there are pros and cons to any database, but I'm curious what your current objections to MySQL are; maybe I should be moving away from it for my own projects too.
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We had a mysql db lose a bunch of data a while back, and we'd rather not run >1 DBMS anyway, so we picked postgres.

-Bill