Re: Why facebook used mysql ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vick Khera
Subject Re: Why facebook used mysql ?
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In response to Re: Why facebook used mysql ?  (Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>)
Responses Re: Why facebook used mysql ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com> wrote:
> Also, my understanding is that if you go way back on the PostgreSQL timeline to versions 6 and earliest 7.x, it was a
littleshaky. (I started with 7.3 or 7.4, and it has been rock solid.) 
>

In those same times, mysql was also, um, other than rock solid.  I
have somewhere a personal email from Monty describing how to
crash-recover corrupted myisam data files (I was customer number 13 I
believe... i wish i still had that support contract certificate as an
artifact)

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