Mr Marcelo
Thank you.
at the end is a personal election
I agree.
But I'm happy that FW has support to PG
We are only beginning by providing better compatibility with (x)Harbour's libraries hbpgsql and pgsql and also provide enhanced functionality. We are still far from providing our own library like our mariadb.
I have no opinion or bias against or in favour of PG. I am only trying to learn from other knowledgeable colleagues why do they consider PG to be better than MySql/MariaDB.
This also gives us an idea how many users will be interested if we invest our time to provide a better featured libraray for PG.
Licence: I think with Mariadb, licence is not an issue
Features: This is what I am interested in learning what are those extra features that are attracting our FWH users. This also gives us an idea where to focus more in our development.
NoSql and GIS are also available with MariaDB. I agree I did not compare the features in detail.
Though I am sure we are never going to use it, MariaDB is also coming up with Column Store in the lines of Oracle, which greatly enhances OLAP performance without sacrificing OLTP performance. All this is irrelevant for our volumes of data.