Re: Is PostgreSQL an easy choice for a large CMS?

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 14:32, Tony Lausin wrote:
> > [ rotfl... ]  MySQL will fall over under any heavy concurrent-write
> > scenario.  It's conceivable that PG won't do what you need either,
> > but if not I'm afraid you're going to be forced into Oracle or one
> > of the other serious-money DBs.
> >
> >                         regards, tom lane
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> That's a scary idea - being forced into Oracle or Sybase. Isn't
> Slashdot.org still running strongly off of MySQL?

Depends on how you define strongly.  Slashdot has a LOT of code in place
to cache the content so it never has to hit the database directly.
Basically, every X seconds, the data creating the site is ripped outta
the database and produced as static content so that the writes and reads
don't clobber each other.  And it still takes a pretty big and fast
machine to handle the load.