15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
5:02 p.m.
On 2/15/06, Rowan Kerr <rowan@stasis.org> wrote:
Gordon Heydon wrote:
On the other hand this will mean that we will need to use another database.
Great chance to make sure PostgreSQL becomes treated as a 1st class citizen :) And possibly improve the db abstraction in general..
I would not mind that. Technically PostgreSQL is technically better than MySQL (at least it always has transactions, and we can enforce referrential integrity). Where I am concerned is hosting company acceptance and hence widespread use. Drupal currently can run everywhere, because PHP and MySQL are everywhere. What I cannot predict clearly is whether hosting companies would all move to PostgreSQL, or stay with SQLite, or what, and when ...