[sldev] [ANN] certified http development

[Ryan Williams]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> From: Ryan Williams <rdw at lindenlab.com>
>> We're thinking that we'll be doing *everything* in MySQL, because then
>> we can wrap an entire do-something-non-idempotent-and-send-a-response
>> into one database transaction and hope that those guys implemented ACID
>> right.  :-)
>
> Was that a joke about MySQL? I'm not laughing.
>
Ha ha, well, it's better than hoping that *we* implemented ACID right.  
:-)  Gotta start with something solid.

> But that does bring up a question... did you guys ever consider 
> PostgreSQL?
I think chttp would do quite well with a Postgres backend.  No reason 
not to.

As for our choice of software to run on our servers, I've seen that 
question a lot, and I don't really have an answer since the decision to 
use MySQL was made long before I started here.

-RYaN