New Message: Scaling Manila with mySQL

[Steve Hooker]

I'm not too worried about updates. I was hoping there'd be a shortcut, I 
see that there isn't.
Thanks for the heads up chaps, I'll think of some other way of dealing 
with 145k messages.

>> 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.
>
> John VanDyk wrote:
> 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.
>