[mooneater]

Because postgres and postgis are awesome!

I migrated to them in 2005 (from mysql) and was amazed by how much happier I was. And it never cost me a dollar.

I loved it so much I visited its authors in Victoria and bought consulting from them. They are amazing folks.

[antupis]

I would say postgres is python of databases, second best to everything.

[j45]

Postgres is a superior server to MySQL. It's clients are vastly inferior.

[marcosdumay]

Postgres is the absolute best you will get for diverse relational data with strict consistency needs and not a huge amount of data of each type (AKA, what databases were created for).

It's second best (or third) for the stuff that historically made people abandon relational databases. But it's absolutely the best choice for its core functionality.

(But well, Python is the best system scripting language around. So the phrase was always an exaggeration.)