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The Threat to Postgres and the Concept of Branching
This chapter delves into the potential threat to Postgres on a marketing level, exploring why startups are choosing alternatives like MySQL. It discusses the concept of choosing a planet scale and the two value propositions of plain scale. Additionally, it introduces the idea of branching in databases, specifically in PostgreSQL, and how it can handle conflicts and changes in schema.