Re: postgresql vs mysql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: postgresql vs mysql
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Msg-id 45DE3B0D.5070300@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: postgresql vs mysql  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
Responses Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: postgresql vs mysql  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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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 :)

Joshua D. Drake

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