Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Joshua D. Drake escribió: >> Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: >>> On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/
