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> why didn't it try to improve Postgres

Honestly, why would they? If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.

Just because it's open source and they could spend money improving it, doesn't mean a company will spend that money improving it.

> If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.

I would hardly say MySQL does what they need without any improvements. They built an entire second platform on top of it.

MySQL does need improvements. This [0] is an example.

Isn't MySQL owned by Oracle and closed sourced as a result these days?

MySQL does need so much improvements