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		y4mi on July 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why we're ending support for MySQL It can be, if you're using an orm which abstracts everything sql away. You'll lose a lot of functionality and performance however. This might be an acceptable trade-off in some cases.

guggle on July 3, 2019 [–]

I'd like to hear about thoses cases. Even when using an ORM, some feature just won't work with some backends. Example: Django has warnings all over it's documentation because "PostGreSQL has X feature but MySQL has not".

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