On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 04:36:07PM -0400, Leon Smith wrote:
That said, I think there would be some potential advantages of moving to
SQL. My personal preference would for PostgreSQL, particularly because
of the wealth of datatypes it provides, or can be added to it via already
existing
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote:
I think it would be best to use lowest-common-denominator SQL, so that
one can set up a Hackage 2 instance with postgreq, mysql, sqlite, or
another DB backend.
While I think that's a laudable goal in theory, unfortunately
Hi all,
I've had a bit of experience with Hackage 2 and acid-state now, and I'm
not convinced that it's the best fit for us:
* It's slow. It takes about 5 minutes for me to stop and then start the
server. It's actually surprising just how slow it is, so it might be
possible/easy to get this
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote:
Someone pointed out that one disadvantage of traditional databases is
that they discourage you from writing as if everything was Haskell
datastructures in memory. For example, if you have things of type
data Foo = Foo {
Hi Ian,
We used acid-state (actually happstack-state) at Silk for our session
store. We had the same problems you describe: slow shutdown/startup,
high memory usage, unable to inspect the data. We recently switched to
an SQL database. Just another data point.
Erik
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:49
On 6 September 2012 19:49, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've had a bit of experience with Hackage 2 and acid-state now, and I'm
not convinced that it's the best fit for us:
* It's slow. It takes about 5 minutes for me to stop and then start the
server. It's actually
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote:
* Only a single process can use the database at once. For example, if
the admins want a tool that will make it easier for them to approve
user requests, then that tool needs to be integrated into the Hackage
server
On 6 September 2012 21:06, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6 September 2012 19:49, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote:
* Only a single process can use the database at once. For example, if
the admins want a tool that will make it easier for them to approve
user
