On 03/09/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/09/07, zham rock zhamrock@gmail.com wrote:
Guys - does anyone knows whether MS SQL or Sybase is supported by Mediawiki?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation gives the requirements, which include:
# Database Server
* MySQL 4.0 or later * or PostgreSQL 8.1 or later (also requires plpgsql and tsearch2) * or Ingres 2006 or later (SVN-Download)So MS SQL and Sybase are not supported.
Ingres shouldn't be in the list either; we don't support it in the core software. Have removed the misleading information from the page.
We have no roadmap for supporting additional DBMS; a longer discussion of additional DBMS support appears at http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk&oldid=12...:
"Note that there was some recent work in this area (see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9767), but I'm not quite sure what the status of that is at the moment. There's no official roadmap for inclusion of support for other DBMS; support for, e.g. PostgreSQL has become available thanks to a dedicated maintainer with a strong interest in making this happen. From our point of view, there's no benefit in supporting DBMS which we don't use in production.
The Oracle support was, at one point, removed from the software, and was re-added, but has once again slipped into an unmaintained state. robchurch | talk 01:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)"
Rob Church