PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, was: MySQL premium services?

[Charles Jones]

kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
> The final single reason why I went Postgres was backups.
> Back in the day when I did my research (this may have changed) you could not 
> take a hot backup in MySQL without purchasing a commercial product, as 
> opposite as Postgres that you can simply hot-backup a fully consistent 
> database with pgdump. 
>   
man mysqldump  :-)