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.