If you were paying attention, postgres always the better option, based on my experience starting around 2002 or so. MySQL had the better marketing in its name and was arguably a bit easier to get going from the start, but postgres was always more advanced and IMHO once you got past the most basic usage made a lot more sense in how it's configured.
The fact that it was the M in the LAMP stack gave it a huge edge too. What was at one point an all day, if not multiday setup and configuration process became a simple install script once LAMP became a thing.
MySql was the "default" for a long time until Oracle muddied the waters just enough to make devs look around a bit.
The fact that it was the M in the LAMP stack gave it a huge edge too. What was at one point an all day, if not multiday setup and configuration process became a simple install script once LAMP became a thing.
MySql was the "default" for a long time until Oracle muddied the waters just enough to make devs look around a bit.