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PostgreSQL Backward Compatibility

Summary: Backward compatibility of database versions is critical, as it directly impacts the availability, continuity, and overall efficiency of business systems, and is necessary for the success of a database product. When you get used to using some successful database products, you may not feel that they exist, because it has become like air and water, making you feel that database products are supposed to be the way they are. However, if you choose to use a bad database product, you will feel like you’re always running into problems because of the lack of backward compatibility of the versions.

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Development culture in PostgreSQL community

Summary: The PostgreSQL community is characterized by a unique development culture that emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and community-driven contributions.

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Why PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that supports complex query optimization, triggers, stored procedures, and functions. It has gained a good reputation for openness, feature richness, user-friendliness, and more.

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Leaving MySQL

Today was my last day at Oracle, and thus also in the MySQL team. When a decision comes to switch workplaces, there’s always the question of “why”, but that question always has multiple answers, and perhaps the simplest one is that I found another opportunity, and and as a whole, it was obvious it was time to move on when that arrived. But it doesn’t really explain why I did go looking for that somewhere else in the first place.

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