On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:25:22PM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:38:41PM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
I'm always suspicious when someone makes the assertion that Language or Database X is vastly inferior to Language or Database Y, especially when
I'm not saying Postgres would result in dramatic speedups; it's about equal to MySQL in speed. But I believe the slowdown caused by locks WOULD go away. I agree with you that better indexing could speed things
This is just like an edit war, so let's apply the NPOV. That is, let's agree that we are working towards a faster, smoother operation of the system, regardless of which combination of tools eventually achieve that goal. Before we have tried Postgres, let's refrain from claiming that it has "obvious" advantages or drawbacks. Otherwise we risk getting entrenched in prestigious preferences, and few things can be more destructive.
What about trying other backends of MySQL ? It has at least two other than the default one - afair BerkeleyDB and InnoDB.
It shouldn't be much work as it's still MySQL and we could get some data on which of the three is the best for Wikipedia without much work.