On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-23 at 23:18, M Carling wrote:
On 23 Jan 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
I tried lifting the ban on updating view counters and the slow special pages and load ballooned up like a, well, a balloon. I put it back.
Part of the problem might be MySQL.
We've heard this song before, and it's never yet been followed by "and here's my patch which makes Wikipedia run on PostgreSQL, which I am an expert with and that's how I know it's so damn fast, and here are some precise and useful tips on optimising the setup and converting the database."
Apologies if I sound a little rude, but it does get a little frustrating after a few times. :)
If you would like to try adapting the software to PostgreSQL, I'd *love* to see the results. Please sign up for the wikitech-l developers' list, and check our source out of CVS:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_Wikipedia_hacker
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)