Hi Martin, Thanks for answering my question. Like you I only have anecdotal evidence, and producing a thorough comparison is beyond what I could achieve with a reasonable amount of effort.
I guess I'll continue to struggle get moodle to work with Pg on XS(163). I didn't find Pg as an installed service and the moodle that yum installed only had mysql support libraries as dependencies. Or should I just wait until moodle is bundled with XS? Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <server-devel@lists.laptop.org> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS SW > Hi Tim, > > in brief - we cannot use such simplistic criteria. In absolute > numbers, Windows 200x Server may outnumber Linux installations out > there. We have much more serious factors to consider :-) > > If you can produce (and document) a thorough MySQL vs Pg comparison -- > with numbers and scripts so I can run the same comparison -- and it > shows MySQL to be better, then I am happy to reconsider. The areas > that I am mainly interested in are: > > - absolute reliability - the XS will most of the time "lose power" > rather than be shut down > - performance in low mem configurations > - performance overall > > IME - working extensively with MySQL since '98 and with Pg since 2003 > - is that Pg has _never_ seen a lockup or failed to start after a bad > shutdown / powerloss / disk corruption on me; and recent versions of > Pg mostly match performance of ISAM/MyISAM with small datasets and > simple SQL. Medium to large datasets, and complex SQL (which Moodle > uses extensively) make Pg shine. > > This is to say - MySQL with MyISAM/ISAM tables is unacceptably > unrelaible. InnoDB may make MySQL more reliable, but it is > significantly slower are much larger on disk (or was when Moodle.org > attempted the switch and had to back out). Unfortunately, InnoDB is a > bit of a dead end because of Oracle, and Falcon won't be ready for a > while. It is a shaky track. > > One argument for MySQL I have heard before in other projects is "wider > webapp support" - but to be frank I found that Pg support is a good > measure of quality. There is a ton of crap webapps out there, weekend > projects that are good enough for their developers, but not really > good for any serious use. The few good ones out there are portable > across DBs and OSs, have decent approach to security, have put > significant work into scalable code and APIs, etc ;-) > > Does that help? If you really think MySQL passes muster - please give > us some concrete material. > > cheers, > > > martin > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel