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Interesting to read about github using MySQL instead of Postgres. Anyone know why? I am just curious because of all the MySQL bashing I hear in the echo chamber
by cschep 14y ago
Interesting to read about github using MySQL instead of Postgres. Anyone know why? I am just curious because of all the MySQL bashing I hear in the echo chamber.
- technoweenie 14y agoMostly because of legacy reasons, at this point.
- lonnyk 14y agoDo you have a source for this information?
- technoweenie 14y agoI have the source code, yes :)
- jaggederest 14y agohttps://github.com/technoweenie https://github.com/technoweenie He's on the Github team. I assume he's speaking Ex Cathedra.
- boundlessdreamz 14y agoThat sounds like you would have chosen differently if you had to choose now. Is that so?
- autotravis 14y agoThey use both, according to Zach Holman (http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-environment http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-...)
- technoweenie 14y agoThe only postgres we use is from internal Heroku apps. We use Mongo in a few places too.