When did Postgres become cool?
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When did Postgres become cool?
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Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#2As with anything truly cool, it was cool long before most people noticed. I have been using Postgres on and off since ~7.2 and it has always been amazing. Being known as cool takes time.
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#3~5 years ago in the midwest.
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#4> the first Postgres company Great Bridge.
That doesn't seem correct. Wasn't PostgreSQL Inc. the first PostgreSQL company?
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#5> Postgres wasn't always the cool kid.
Has been since before the Maria/MySQL split in my sphere of the world. Always interesting to see how different people perceive tools over time.
Honestly this sounds more like "When did psql go mainstream"?
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#6Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#7Josh Berkus had a great talk on the history of Postgres forks and variants. Link below to slides from a version of this talk in 2009:
https://www.slideshare.net/pgconf/elephant-roads-a-tour-of-p...
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#8When I started using Django 10 years ago during the Django/Rails era, Postgres was by far the most recommended DB to use. Not sure if that was also true in Rails community.
Re: When did Postgres become cool?
#9Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.
Oracle fucks you in pricing, PostgreSQL in the effort required to pull off a minor version upgrade.
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