On 5/23/02 1:34 PM, "Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
Jan.Hidders wrote:
It's not so much PHP that is the problem, as
it is MySQL. Perhaps we should
considering moving to PostgreSQL which really supports UTF-8 and is a better
database anyway (some special pages could be implemented far more
efficiently there).
A good opportunity for switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL is coming
soon, with the move from our current server to a new and much more
powerful server. I'd be happy to install PostgreSQL over there
instead. And we'll be giving out developer accounts to several
people, including root access where appropriate, so things are going
to be a lot easier for the development team.
I gotta say, I'm hardly convinced that Postgre is that astoundingly better
than MySQL for our purposes. As was pointed out, Slashdot runs on MySQL, and
it's a damn fast, high-traffic, complicated site.
If you guys want to change to Postgre, go ahead, but it should be recognized
that it's a mostly arbitrary decision.
At least that's how I see it.
--tc