I love Postgres in 2026, but it really was not a viable enterprise option before 2010. MySQL had decent binlog replication starting in 2000 which made up for a lot of the horrible warts it had.

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bombcar 3 days ago | parent [-]

mysql was great in 2000 if you knew all the foot guns to avoid and set it up correctly (and not just what sounded correct).

	▲	tomnipotent 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention there was Percona, and both Google & Facebook contributed a number of patches that made monitoring MySQL top notch (such as finding slow running queries, unused indexes, locks etc.).