New Message: Scaling Manila with mySQL

[John VanDyk]

>At 2004-06-22 12:54 PM +0000, Sam Reynolds wrote:
>I don't think Manila lends itself well to substituting
>an SQL DB for internal storage. Too much code knows
>about and depends on the message storage structure.
>You're talking about a *lot* of work, that may then
>be overwritten by the next UserLand update.

I'll second this. I began on this project a few years ago using 
Postgres and Andre Radke's Postgres extension

http://www.spicynoodles.net/projects/postgresql/

but it quickly became apparent that the advantages of Manila's 
underlying object database (quick, in-memory access) were nullified 
by the fact that storage in Manila had never been abstracted. 
Basically you'd have to rewrite Manila.