witness the destruction of mysql

I’ve now got a tool (almost complete) that slurps in a MySQL DB definition and spits out one for Postgres. I will post a link to it when I get creation of the enum tables working. (Instead of enums, Postgres uses constraints and extra tables.)

I had a few problems moving to FreeBSD 5 with MySQL, which ultimately caused by was shoddy code in InnoDB.

I just rewrote all our in-code SQL queries to be easily recognizable. They now all live in

FOO = <<-SQL
    SELECT blah
    FROM there
    WHERE x = 1
SQL

This will help us with moving away from MySQL.

Bob has also been exploring Postgres performance, but his results are preliminary