I found this in the 1.7.0 release notes http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-N OTES. I guess this says it all. == Compatibility == Experimental Oracle support has been dropped as it is unmaintained. Oh well, I'll need to find another wiki or get my DB people to also support MySQL, which they snear at, so it may take many meetings with lots of free food. -Jim -----Original Message----- From: Rob Church [mailto:robchur@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:24 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Oracle Support? On 23/08/06, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov> wrote: I don't think there's an official effort. From time to time, people whinge about it, and our lead developer invites them or their organisation to contact him if interested in helping out, but nothing happens. This isn't unusual; it took a good deal of time for us to get decent PostgreSQL support. Yes. I wouldn't trust services that don't seem to verify or update information, myself... Rob Church _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Rob Church wrote: Does this mean that we now, officially, *have* decent PostgreSQL support? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra(a)baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 The Internet: We paved paradise, and put up a snarking lot.

On 23/08/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote: Have a chat with our lead developer, Brion Vibber, if interested in reviving Oracle support; he'll sort out commit access and keep an eye on stuff. :) Rob Church