[development] Do not let postgresql hold back great patches

[George Kappel]

I would think this is a slippery slope, making sure a patch work against 
at least 2 db backends in a reasonable way is an important indication of 
quality

Larry Garfield wrote:
> PDO will only abstract the API for us.  It will not help us abstract query 
> syntax or solve the fact that there is no such thing as "SQL", just vaguely 
> similar languages called MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc.  
>
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Ken Rickard wrote:
>   
>> I would agree with Khalid, actually.  Having rock-solid code on a
>> popular platform seems ideal, at least until something like PDO is
>> ready to handle database abstraction for us.
>>
>> I only installed pgSQL to be a "responsible" module maintainer after
>> my requests for pgSQL testers went unanswered.
>>
>> At work, we're entirely MySQL.
>>
>> - Ken Rickard
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2007 7:30 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Nov 11, 2007 5:17 PM, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> In my opinion, any patch should be committable to core once it works
>>>> on mysql and has a decent hope (use common sense) to work on
>>>> postgresql. Once it's committed those who care about postgresql, if
>>>> they so want to, can test and if there is a need, fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Prime example: http://drupal.org/node/146466 this is the most
>>>> important patch we have currently as it makes Drupal search speedy and
>>>> nice. And it is more or less on hold just because noone is sure
>>>> whether the postgresql update works or not.
>>>>         
>>> I know many will not like what I will say, but  I have to say it.
>>>
>>> A prime example of where MySQL works fine to solve an issue with a few
>>> lines is this issue http://drupal.org/node/83738. All the huge changes
>>> and jumping through hoops is because of accomodating PostgreSQL
>>>
>>> We introduced schema changes just because PostgreSQL cannot do case
>>> insensitive matching by default, while MySQL works fine. For the sake of
>>> 5% (or 1%) of the sites, we are increasing complexity.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Karoly Negyesi
>>>>         
>>> --
>>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>>> 2bits.com
>>> http://2bits.com
>>> Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
>>>       
>
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