[ic] Newb Postgres Session Setup
Jason Lee
jason.lee at mac.com
Thu Jul 31 16:18:51 EDT 2003
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Mike Heins wrote:
> I don't believe Pg text types handle binary values well. To use it,
> you will have to disable Storable for sessions. (That is usually
> just removing the _session_storable file in the Interchange root.)
>
So how would this affect a session? Is not storing the actual session
itself going to be an issue? I'm assuming that since you're
recommending this that it won't be?
> It has been my experience that the write speed of Postgres is a
> great deal slower than MySQL, so IMHO it is better to use MySQL For
> that purpose.
>
I guess it would be possible to have a separate MySQL for just the
session stuff. I'm sure this is a waste though and I should probably
just move everything over to MySQL all together. Hmm.. I'm aware also
of the write speed of the two dbs.
I've mostly used Postgres for my various project over MySQL
specifically (way back) because MySQL had the whole transaction issue.
Obviously, that doesn't exist anymore, but I also read later on that
Postgres was better at supporting SQL standards and was still more
mature in regards to transactions.
Not 100% on that, but can anyone chime in on deployment sizes and
things like that using MySQL vs. Postgres. I'm early enough along in
the project where I can still make the decision of this db or that and
depending on the input, I might switch. At some point, this will have
to be a HA system and my goal for the long term will be to get a db
setup with failover along with clustering on Interchange boxes.
Much thanks again,
- Jason
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