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Comment by bkuehl

A lot of comments for Postgres, but it's the only major DB in 2023 that does not let you choose your character collation when creating a database. That is pretty much a deal breaker day 1. Guess you'll be doing a tolower() on every db search and not use indices which will kill performance or using column collation casts on every search query. I just don't get it.

I once tried to migrate a SQL Server DB to Postgres and eventually gave up, with MySQL being a pretty easy switch with some minor stored procedure rewrites.

Also it tends to do things way differently than every other DB. VACUUM is just a completely different concept that can footgun you pretty fast.

Postgres is pretty powerful but it has certainly made some interesting design choices.

parent bkuehl 3 years ago

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