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

Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera 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?
>
> I believe it would suffer less outage yes.

And how is SourceForge doing these days, by the way?

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