[sldev] [ANN] certified http development

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Thu Sep 20 20:17:33 PDT 2007


Ryan Williams wrote:
> 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.

What do you mean, its not your fault?

Of course its you're fault. You're the person we're talking to  and 
everyone knows that that is the person responsible for everything.


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