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Interesting to read about github using MySQL instead of Postgres. Anyone know why? I am just curious because of all the MySQL bashing I hear in the echo chamber.

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Mostly because of legacy reasons, at this point.

Do you have a source for this information?

I have the source code, yes :)

https://github.com/technoweenie

He's on the Github team. I assume he's speaking Ex Cathedra.

That sounds like you would have chosen differently if you had to choose now. Is that so?

They use both, according to Zach Holman (http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-...)

The only postgres we use is from internal Heroku apps. We use Mongo in a few places too.

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