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Re:PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS by __float on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:17PM (#11664593)
What do you mean by MySQL avoiding an additional database dependency?
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Re:PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS by charliedevolve on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:06PM (#11664738)
I think he meant that MySQL is the only supported DB for Wordpress, and while you might be able to get it running on another DB after jumping through some hoops, it's probably not worth the effort.
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Re:PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS by gleenn on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:20PM (#11664606)
IIRC PHP has built-in support for MySQL out of the box.
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Re:PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS by goldbrick on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:08AM (#11665091)
Well, technically it's a "PHP extension", just one that several distributions include by default.
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Re:PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS by gjolund on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:41PM (#11664669)
^^^
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