On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:28:37 +0100 Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I still find impressing that Google uses MySQL... I can guess why, > What makes you so sure Google don't use PostgreSQL *as well*? I'm not sure... in fact I never excluded they could use pg for other stuff... They may use it for collecting payment, counting # of ads/click trough etc... > (hint: we don't force them to tell you about it...) So... MySQL forced Google to tell everyone? I think the field of application is pretty different. I'm speculating... They should have a "narrow" task, they shouldn't be interested in coherency/integrity... just on HA etc... Still I'd be curious to know if people can scale pg to several hundreds(?) machines without loosing the features that differentiate it from other DB... -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
