Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)
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Msg-id 20070223011120.GC7744@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: postgresql vs mysql  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)  ("Ian Harding" <harding.ian@gmail.com>)
Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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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"?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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