Hello, I saw in wikipedia that in future development wikimedia would change the database to pgsql. Is it true? When is it going to be implemented? What's the reason in changing?
Thank you...
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Roiki wrote: | Hello, | I saw in wikipedia that in future development wikimedia would change the database to pgsql. Is it true?
There is experimental support for using PostgreSQL with MediaWiki in 1.4. It's incomplete, lacking installer support, is not well tested, and doesn't include search capability.
MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at this time.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb:
MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at this time.
I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated backend? I'm only guessing but there will be a rather large number of users that will refuse a DB switch... also most hosting sites offer LAMP but considerably fewer offer LAPP...
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Ira Abramov wrote: | Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb: | >>MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at |>this time. | | I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL | will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated | backend?
Hypothetically one day that could happen, but so could a lot of random unforseen things. Why do you feel the need to read things into our support for several different database backends, at differing levels of development and stability? If as you say you hate having to do it, why do it?
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb:
| I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL | will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated | backend?
Hypothetically one day that could happen, but so could a lot of random unforseen things. Why do you feel the need to read things into our support for several different database backends, at differing levels of development and stability? If as you say you hate having to do it, why do it?
I'm sorry... I guess I read "at this time" and it was not as reassuring as "not in the planned future". For me "at this time" is what governments use to calm the citizens 2 weeks before doing the opposite :-)
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