On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David Fetter wrote:

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

Can we get somebody from OSM to talk about this on the record?

I've forwarded this request the to the OSM talk list. Hopefully someone who can talk 'on the record' will step forward.

The master OSM database used for editing used to by MySQL but most of the map rendering was done from Postgis hosted data. Over the weekend they switched ,as part of an API upgrade, the main editing database to Postgresql (but still not using complex geometry types).

I think the reasoning had to do with them wanting transactions and the switch to InnoDB brought has some downsides, but I don't know which of the innodb downsides motivated the switch.

I think the reference to MonetDB was part of an April fools joke.

Steve


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David.
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