On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Given those criteria, I think that the following have "full support"
>> in MediaWiki:
>> * MySQL
>> * SQLite
>> * PostgreSQL
>
> In practice, though, SQLite and PostgreSQL are more likely to break
> than MySQL, right? If so, we should make this clear in the installer
> UI. Or are they really about as well-supported as MySQL these days,
> minus a moderate lag in schema updates for pgsql?
>
> Ideally, we could run test suites by default on all available DBs
> instead of just on the one the wiki currently uses. In particular,
> SQLite currently uses the same schema as MySQL and is available in PHP
> by default, plus it doesn't require any setup (providing admin login,
> etc.), so it would be great if we could run SQLite tests right now
> whenever people run tests. It would be great if people could set up
> pgsql to automatically run too, but that would require manual setup.
> This is the kind of thing automated tests are really helpful for.
> (But that's kind of tangential.)
Out of curiosity - what regression test suites are in use to QA MW builds?
Thanks...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com