Re: PostgreSQL and XML - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gavin M. Roy
Subject Re: PostgreSQL and XML
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Msg-id 3E721FBF.7000401@justsportsusa.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL and XML  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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I have to agree here.  I use php on a site that gets 13,000,000 hits a day, and has 1,600,000 visitors.  I don't have any problems.  It's a solid well development system, and all it takes is to configure the postgres daemon to accept as many connections as your webserver can handle.  No need to bash any language, each has their own niche, just as DBMS's do. 

Gavin

scott.marlowe wrote:
On 14 Mar 2003, Tony Grant wrote:
 
When searching the online docs  for 
   
PostgreSQL 7.3 allows UDFs to return multiple rows     
I noticed the site is tits up because of a PHP error...

OK this won't make me very popular but why are you guys messing around
with this junk? PHP is for MySQL weenies... Real men use JSP!

OK so it is Friday afternoon - I'll just go to the fridge and get a beer
now...   
Wow, what is it with you guys and your unsupported assertions against PHP 
today.  First on hackers and now on general.  You don't PHP, don't use it.  
You want the website done in JSP, then do it and quit bitching about 
someone else's choice of tools.
It's not failing because of a PHP error.  did you look at the screen?  
It's failing because the database isn't answering.  JSP wouldn't make it 
any better, it would still be offline.

My PHP server stays up 24/7 under heavy load doing very complex things.  
One machine, 99.99% uptime, no unscheduled downtime in two years.

Our JSP Server farm has failures every week, where some part of the 
complex inner workings that is JSP fail for no apparent reason and needs 
to be reset.  That's enterprise computing?  If it wasn't a failover of 
three machines it would be offline for an hour or so a week.

I've seen as many unsupported assertions that "postgresql is a toy, use 
oracle" before.

They're just as ugly no matter what you're talking about.  PHP works a 
charm, and if you'd actually try and benchmark it against JSP you might be 
surprised how much faster it is, especially under load.

Informed opinion is welcomed, but this kind of off the cuff slamming of 
something you know so little about it just ugly.


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