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		oditogre on Sept 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What nine of the world's largest websites are runn... Nobody uses PostgreSQL?

DocSavage on Sept 28, 2007 [–]

Yeah, that really stood out. Seven out of 8 or 9 used MySQL.

aston on Sept 29, 2007 | [–]

It's not so suprising. You don't really need the overhead PostgreSQL brings in for most web applications. You probably don't need the overhead of SQL Server, either.

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