Looks like a critical improvement, but…

it’s still Oracle one is trusting with one’s core infrastructure, & Postgres ISN’T Oracle, & so I still don’t see why people would go with MySQL rather than something which isn’t Oracle?

I remember reading, a few years ago, that Oracle had engineered it so that, due to licensing, it was no-longer-possible to guarantee that FLOSS ( MariaDB ) was MySQL compatible: they’d locked-down some key part of it, making it closed or proprietary, or both…

Just leave all such “relationships”, & pay up-front, instead of forever…

https://mariadb.org/when-oracle-drops-the-ball/

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