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		maxk42 on Oct 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions? Not in around 15 years. You're thinking of when MyISAM was the default storage engine for MySQL. It has been InnoDB for over a decade. InnoDB is very reliable - I've never had a single data loss incident in all that time, and I've managed some very large (PB-scale) and active databases. Postgres is definitely more difficult to administer.

yxhuvud on Oct 18, 2024 | [–]

MySQL used to have horrible and very unsafe defaults for new installations that persisted well after the introduction of InnoDB. Those went unfixed for a very long time.

Symbiote on Oct 18, 2024 | [–]

People are criticising decade-old releases of PostgreSQL, so it seems fair to compare them to similarly aged MySQL releases.

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