Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake escribió:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake escribió:
>>>> Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>>>>> On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>> That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
>>>>>> as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
>>>>>> scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
>>>>> I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
>>>>> hits, too, I believe.
>>>> And outages if you watch :)
>>> Does this mean that we believe the Wikipedia would not suffer any
>>> outages if it ran on Postgres?
>> I believe it would suffer less outage yes.
>
> And how is SourceForge doing these days, by the way?

Wonderful of course :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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