[57north-discuss] Wiki captcha

[Andrea Faulds]

On 7 Oct 2014, at 14:41, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 02:38 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>> Oh god, why? What’s wrong with SQLite? We are nowhere near the scale
>> where MySQL is necessary or even terribly desirable.
> 
> There is something to do with how mediawiki locks the DB when using
> sqlite so only 1 person can use the wiki at a time and then only if the
> automated things aren't running. 

That’s how SQLite works generally, yes. You can’t do simultaneous writes. Though it shouldn’t be a problem at our scale, since simultaneous reads still work, I think.

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