Re: Why facebook used mysql ?

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
Cc: Allan Kamau <kamauallan(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why facebook used mysql ?
Date: 2010-11-09 15:40:28
Message-ID: AANLkTi=KKCfBMbAT2DxFyaF5mWkTyY06b195LK3MB9Cs@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)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 little shaky. (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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