We've got a nice abstract query system but our table creation and
migrations are horrible. We re-write them for multiple database engines.
And as a result extensions need to do the same and often don't. Leading to
things being a mess for databases other than MySQL.
While I was doing the sites stuff a syntax for defining tables came to
mind and I wrote out an RfC for a method of defining our database
abstractly.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abstract_table_definiti…
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]