Re: Autovacuum / full vacuum (off-topic?)

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:46:45PM +0100, me(at)alternize(dot)com wrote:
> >Sure... I've never been asked to consult on our stuff, and in any case,
> >I don't do web front-ends (one of the nice things about working with a
> >team of other consultants). AFAIK IIS will happily talk to PostgreSQL
> >(though maybe I'm wrong there...)
>
> iis (yeah, asp in a successfull productive environement hehe) & postgresql
> works even better for us than iis & mssql :-)

Just last night I was talking to someone about different databases and
what-not (he's stuck in a windows shop using MSSQL and I mentioned I'd
heard some bad things about it's stability). I realized at some point
that asking about what large installs of something exist is pretty
pointless... given enough effort you can make almost anything scale. As
an example, there's a cable company with a MySQL database that's nearly
1TB... if that's not proof you can make anything scale, I don't know
what is. ;)

What people really need to ask about is how hard it is to make something
work, and how many problems you're likely to keep encountering.
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