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Sorry I'm new to MySQL, in what way did they stab you in the back? Just curious about the analogy!


Do not trust anything it does implicitly (like casting stuff, running triggers reliably, locking properly etc).

Nothing follows logic so if you assume something would work a particular way, it will most definitely do the wrong thing instead.

It is fine otherwise.

In a serious tone, I ran large apps on MySQL, it works and performans fine. But makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Go with PostgreSQL if you can choose / it is not a big hassle.


Obscure / unexpected behaviour in production, MySQL caused little data disasters at every company where we used it




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