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

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

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.

> 
> How is the Postgres port of the Wikipedia doing this days anyway?  Is it
> in a shape where one would consider it "competitive"?

I don't know, I believe citizideum or whatever it is called is
PostgreSQL based.

Joshua D. Drake

> 


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