[development] So why we do support postgresql?

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Wed Jan 16 00:01:26 UTC 2008


Yes, but with differentiation between InnoDB and MyISAM.

It already says Drupal sites are 94% Drupal, with 3% Postgres (and one vote
for MS SQL and Oracle).

On Jan 15, 2008 6:25 PM, Michelle Cox <mcox at charter.net> wrote:

> Something like http://groups.drupal.org/node/6164 ?
>
> Michelle
>
> On 1/15/2008 5:13:25 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin (kb at 2bits.com) wrote:
> > I support chx's proposal, don't let PostgreSQL hinder the development
> > cycle.
> >
> > But, every time we have this discussion, we get people talking
> > theories but no concrete data.
> >
> > We here about Drupal must be database agnostic, down with monoculture,
> ...
> > etc. Which is all good.
> >
> > What we are missing is how many real world websites use Drupal AND
> > PostgreSQL, how big these sites are, how many contributed modules are
> > being used, ...etc.
> >
> > I propose a poll with the following options on it:
> >
> > - MySQL MyISAM
> > - MySQL InnoDB
> > - PostgreSQL
> > - other
> >
> > With comments enabled so we get at least some sampling of what is out
> > there.
> >
> > Some data is better than no data, so let us get it.
>
>


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