Comments on: Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 May 2012 17:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-917229 Jason Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:10:55 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-917229 <p>Would love to hear a follow-up about why Postgres fails to scale, especially now that you're at Etsy.</p> Would love to hear a follow-up about why Postgres fails to scale, especially now that you’re at Etsy.

]]> By: Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-811676 Kellan Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:07:43 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-811676 <p>We can talk about the failings of scaling Postgres in another post, at length.</p> We can talk about the failings of scaling Postgres in another post, at length.

]]> By: Joseph Scott http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-811673 Joseph Scott Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:56:03 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-811673 <p>Glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of sequences after reading this :-)</p> <p>To be fair, PostgreSQL isn't the only database that supports sequences.</p> Glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought of sequences after reading this :-)

To be fair, PostgreSQL isn’t the only database that supports sequences.

]]> By: Abusing MySQL: The Federated Engine « mikhail panchenko / blog http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-811669 Abusing MySQL: The Federated Engine « mikhail panchenko / blog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:34:24 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-811669 <p>[...] don’t have quite the experience that Kellan and Richard do with wrangling databases (yet), but I have seen some relatively unorthodox stuff. [...]</p> [...] don’t have quite the experience that Kellan and Richard do with wrangling databases (yet), but I have seen some relatively unorthodox stuff. [...]

]]> By: Mikhail Panchenko http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-811664 Mikhail Panchenko Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:56:20 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-811664 <p>"One of the ways we keep MySQL fast is we index everything we want to query on, and we only query on indexes"</p> <p>Stop lying to the people :D</p> <p>Great post, looking forward to more of these.</p> “One of the ways we keep MySQL fast is we index everything we want to query on, and we only query on indexes”

Stop lying to the people :D

Great post, looking forward to more of these.

]]> By: fuz http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed-unique-primary-keys-on-the-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-811563 fuz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:53:32 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4469#comment-811563 <p>That's an awful lot of effort to go to to get a postgres-style sequence. </p> <p>Clever though.</p> That’s an awful lot of effort to go to to get a postgres-style sequence.

Clever though.

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