I love Postgres in 2026, but it really was not a viable enterprise option before 2010. MySQL had decent binlog replication starting in 2000 which made up for a lot of the horrible warts it had.
mysql was great in 2000 if you knew all the foot guns to avoid and set it up correctly (and not just what sounded correct).
mysql was great in 2000 if you knew all the foot guns to avoid and set it up correctly (and not just what sounded correct).