Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > How is the Postgres port of the Wikipedia doing this days anyway? Is it > in a shape where one would consider it "competitive"? I installed wikipgdia for the WPLUG wiki: http://wplug.ece.cmu.edu/wiki/ We haven't had a lick of trouble with it since it went up. I don't believe it's experienced any downtime in many months. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
