Hey all,
For various reasons, my organization won't support MySQL as a database. I noticed that as of the release notes for 1.6.0, MediaWiki is claimed to support Oracle though it's not well tested.
However, I don't see any documentation that mentions this in any other context. Is this something going to pop up during the install which lets me choose? What do I need in terms of an oracle instance? Do I need a dedicated tablespace?
Also, I hope to be able to install the application files on a shared filesystem (AFS) and I don't have direct access to the PHP server on the web cluster without jumping through some hoops. Will this present a problem for installation or continued running?
-alan
Alan Hoyle wrote:
For various reasons, my organization won't support MySQL as a database. I noticed that as of the release notes for 1.6.0, MediaWiki is claimed to support Oracle though it's not well tested.
As far as I know Oracle support is not actually functional at this time. Further, it's neither being maintained nor is it documented.
If you or your organization are interested in sponsoring continued development, please let me know.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Who started it in the first place anyway?
On May 23, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Alan Hoyle wrote:
For various reasons, my organization won't support MySQL as a database. I noticed that as of the release notes for 1.6.0, MediaWiki is claimed to support Oracle though it's not well tested.
As far as I know Oracle support is not actually functional at this time. Further, it's neither being maintained nor is it documented.
If you or your organization are interested in sponsoring continued development, please let me know.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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On 23/05/06, Elliott F. Cable ecable@avxw.com wrote:
Who started it in the first place anyway?
According to the logs (whee, audit trail), Kate Turner had something to do with it at some point; stuff seems to have been merged in from a branch, which might have been part of a project to get Oracle and MediaWiki talking.
Rob Church
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