Re: Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL
Date: 2016-07-29 16:58:57
Message-ID: 20160729165857.GA10742@momjian.us
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Watching the video was helpful:
>
> https://vimeo.com/145842299
>
> You can see the failover happened because of various user errors. That
> doesn't excuse our bug, but I am not sure exactly how much they
> understood of Postgres behavior. His talk near the end about the
> replication infrastucture being exposed to them was also interesting.

Here is a more balanced blog post that corrects some missing
information, e.g. HOT updates, hot_standby_feedback:

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases

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