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All of my personal apps use Postgres because:

- types are lovely. We love types. SQLite’s default of non-strict typing is, to me, bananas.

- SELECT DISTINCT ON is my ride-or-die

- most importantly, I’m very comfortable in Postgres and the setup cost is basically zero (like SQLite) because Claude does it.

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The setup cost is basically zero anyway. Add apt repo, apt-get install the correct version. Easy to run different versions at the same time too. Upgrading is annoying.
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Concurrency, data types, scalability, centralization, or replication push for Postgres. The push against PgBouncer is that you don't need it, unless you do. If you have an app-level connection pool, you probably don't need PgBouncer.
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