[development] So why we do support postgresql?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Jan 15, 2008 6:45 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS <
Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:

> If we want to do this we need more options:
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 9:13 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 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.

Complaining about theories and such is not helping.

Michelle already pointed to this http://groups.drupal.org/node/6164 which is
sufficient.


> All that I would really like is for the PostgreSQL people to help with
> testing.  We have a critical issue sitting with a patch for days and
> very few people are helping (Daniel is awesome for doing this, btw).
> The page[1] Karoly linked in his thread-starter is a wiki so that
> anyone can add issues to it.  Please, add issues to it and also track
> how often they actually get a review.  To me that is more important
> than whether or not PostgreSQL is in use in general.
>
> [1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/6980
>
> Greg
>
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