16 Jan
2008
16 Jan
'08
3:24 a.m.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am with killes, too. I have setup testing environment for both MySQL and PostgreSQL, and ready to help (and also contribute some help for) PostgreSQL's patch testing as I can. We have done a lot of great job for D6, e.g. Schema API, drupal_write_record(), etc. We can foresee that the PostgreSQL supporting will become much easier than before, people will not need to have indeed multiple database studying before starting their work. This is a good trend, and I find there is pointless to stop it at this moment. Moreover, I am not only focusing on MySQL and PostgreSQL, but also PHP PDO, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL and so on. I have keep focus on Oracle driver development for more than year, and also start my studying on PostgreSQL for around 3 months. I am now hosting a personal research project called as Siren (http://edin.no-ip.com/project/siren), which try to support as many of databases as possible with minimal change of programming logic (not asking for OOP, not asking for core revamp, etc). According to this research, I found that we have a lot of possibility in supporting more and more databases with no critical pain: Siren is now able to support both mysql/mysqli/pgsql/oci8/pdo_mysql/pdo_pgsql, and I am now researching for pdo_oci and ibm_db2 support. I am also ready to contribute such research progress for D7, whenever it is open for public development. Should we stop PostgreSQL supporting? I don't really think so ;-) Regards, Edison Wong Gerhard Killesreiter wrote: > Khalid Baheyeldin schrieb: > > On Jan 15, 2008 6:45 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS < > > Greg@growingventuresolutions.com> wrote: > > >> If we want to do this we need more options: > >> > >> On Jan 15, 2008 9:13 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote: > >>> - MySQL MyISAM > >>> - MySQL InnoDB > >> - MySQL - Multiple engines > >>> - PostgreSQL > >> - Both MySQL and PostgreSQL > >> - One ore more of the rest MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, DB2 > >> > >> But to what end? If we find out (what we already know) that > >> PostgreSQL is the tiny minority what do we gain? > >> > > Quantifies it. > > > Those who want PostgreSQL to continue, either have to put in the > effort to > > test things (from your issue) or cough up the money for it. > > This discussion is pretty pointless. Dries has stated multiple times > that he wants to increase the number of supported databases. So doing a > Drupal release without full pgsql support is out of the question. > > So, I'd like to revert the idea: People who complain about postgres not > been tested and the release being late because of this should set up a > postgres DB and test Drupal on it. Can't be that hard. > > Cheers, > Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjWrUBPIQaq+ZRd8RAkutAJ9THVC/xCfGo7H350yAI4Esiwb55wCeMngK AYA2UhX4qN9xqS4ckCm5gLs= =vecz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----