Re: Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL
Date
Msg-id 20160729165857.GA10742@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Watching the video was helpful:
>
>     https://vimeo.com/145842299
>
> You can see the failover happened because of various user errors.  That
> doesn't excuse our bug, but I am not sure exactly how much they
> understood of Postgres behavior.  His talk near the end about the
> replication infrastucture being exposed to them was also interesting.

Here is a more balanced blog post that corrects some missing
information, e.g. HOT updates, hot_standby_feedback:

    http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases

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