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Asked: 2026-05-12T00:10:16+00:00

I am thinking of working on a Rails application that uses PostgreSQL. I have

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I am thinking of working on a Rails application that uses PostgreSQL. I have some questions before I am comfortable using Rails:

  • Is PostgreSQL support in Rails less superior than, say, MySQL.
  • Would it feel any different if using PostgreSQL?
  • Are there any cases where using PostgreSQL fail to work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After having used sqlite, mysql and postgresql with Rails, I prefer using postrgresql.

    Installation for OSX, Ubuntu and Windows went well as opposed to buggy installs for other DBs.

    I had to install the following gem to use postgresql:
    install gem postgres-pr

    It may “feel” different when you come across complex databse requests where you add in special conditions such as extracting the month from a date as the actual text will differ depending on the database system. Also, postgresql delimits strings in request with E” so sometimes a request using a text-field may come up with an error if you’re not careful with your :conditions => [].

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