[vworld-tech] Modern MUD server design

[Ryan Daum]

Brian Hook wrote:

>>The current versions of MySQL offer transaction support only if you
>>specify the tables as an InnoDB type.  
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>Good to know.  And it looks like the price for MySQL Pro isn't that 
>insane at all -- $495.00 is a pretty reasonable price.
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Why pay for MySQL Pro when PostgreSQL offers transactions and is open 
source and free? 

Or did I miss a previous convo...  Sorry if I'm going over old ground here.

Ryan

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>>The 'trick' is simply to run multiple replicated databases, all on
>>RAID disks, and usually use a hardware solution to provide for
>>transparent failover.
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>Any good papers on how to set this up?  I'm fine without transparent 
>failover, I'm mostly concerned about data loss.  Mirrored hard drives 
>with a replicated database might be enough to keep things going 
>though.
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>>the kernel should be basic, concerned with server I/O, base graphic
>>engine (if required), and other sundry items.
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>Absolutely.  The more that is tied into the kernel, the more game 
>specific it gets.  I'm finding over time that I'm migrating more and 
>more into the Lua stuff (mostly gated by my inexperience with Lua -- 
>the lack of docs for Lua really, really pisses me off).
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>Brian
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