I read your post as FUD regarding Postgres.

That article has various issues, for example, calling Postgres commit protocol as a special case of two phase commit is not really correct. Postgres has 2pc: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-prepare-transa... but that was not tested.

The described behavior is "expected" and "understood". Saying that "you should assume worst from your database" is not something I would ever use for describing DB with ACID semantics.