Re: [development] Do not let postgresql hold back great patches
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:28:28 -0500, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
*) The argument has been made that PostgreSQL compatibility is holding Drupal back, then 1 (One!) patch is referred to again and again. How important is this one patch? If this _1_ patch is holding Drupal back, please commit it!
I think these issues were also stalled on cross-database compatibility issues: http://drupal.org/node/174025 http://drupal.org/node/83738
*) The argument was made that PostgreSQL is too complicated to install and test on, yet I described the setup in a single email. If anyone found my instructions too difficult to follow, _please_ let me know and I will go to efforts to clarify.
Please make a handbook page out of them, and put it near (probably as a child of) the "setting up a dev environment" handbook page. We should probably have one for MySQL and one for Postgres (and if we add SQLite at a later date, one for that, too). Email is far too ephemeral to be a good reference. Thanks! --Larry Garfield
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:58:52 -0600 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
Please make a handbook page out of them, and put it near (probably as a child of) the "setting up a dev environment" handbook page. We should probably have one for MySQL and one for Postgres (and if we add SQLite at a later date, one for that, too). Email is far too ephemeral to be a good reference. Thanks!
Christoph Otto (Volt)" <a-chotto@microsoft.com> from (guess) Microsoft is trying to port D6 to MS SQL. He posted 2 weeks ago about some issues with serial/sequences/identity and I think he can offer an interesting point of view about DB abstraction layers and the issues he encountered in porting D6 to Microsoft SQL. I recently had to write my classes to speed up paging in MS SQL without renouncing to all the lovely stuff Drupal can offer and well it was instructive. I think the experience people trying to port D6 to MS SQL have accumulated may be of interest to all. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
Guys, this discussion lasts for days now. Could we either - move it into d.o forums or - move it to g.d.o DBA or whatever group or - create a survey about whatever whoever thinks about MySQL/PgSQL or general database performance or - probably best work hard on those bugging patches instead of just chat? sun
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Larry Garfield