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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> > Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > > On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.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?
>
> 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.

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.