[pmwiki-devel] mySQL as a DataStore for large pmwiki with lots of blogs

Siegfried Hirsch siegfried.hirsch at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 00:53:00 CST 2007


2007/2/27, Ben Stallings <ben at interdependentweb.com>:
> As the developer of the only current recipe that does this (DataQuery),
> I have to agree that speed is not a reason to do it.  Pagelists of MySQL
> records served up by DataQuery are noticeably slower than pagelists of
> actual wiki pages -- unless you define a limit (e.g. only display 50
> records at any given time) in the query, in which case they're
> comparable.  So I cannot recommend using MySQL as a back-end to PmWiki
> for reasons of speed.

Thanks for the information.

I thought DataQuery would only read from external DB's.
I have stepped through your code and now I see, what you
are talking about.
That helps further understanding the internals of pmwiki.



-- 
Siegfried Hirsch



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