kde needs mysql-server ??

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 02:57:06 UTC 2008


"Muayyad AlSadi" <alsadi at gmail.com> writes:
>> Why not use sqlite?

> We tried. Really. It can't handle the concurrent access very well, in
> the best case this means very slow operations, but we've also seen
> deadlocks and failing transactions. Once that's fixed in sqlite,
> adjusting Akonadi to use it again instead of MySQL is no problem.

[ raised eyebrow... ]  mysql's reputation for concurrent performance
is not exactly stellar either.  I grant that table-wide locks are better
than database-wide locks, but unless you have a lot of independently
accessed tables in your DB design, it won't help much.

			regards, tom lane




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