Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:15:40PM -0800, Jonathan
Walther wrote:
If we port this to Postgres, and then expand yet
again, we'll be in good
shape if some kind soul wants to donate an Oracle license, because we
won't have to worry about MySQLisms or PostgreSQLisms in doing the port
to Oracle.
Don't even dare to suggest such thing. Should Wikipedia ever cease to be
runable on 100% Open Source system, it will cause immediate fork of
the project.
Although I haven't followed this discussion closely, I think Jonathan
was only saying that we should avoid MySQLisms and PostgreSQLisms so
that we *could* run on Oracle. That makes sense to me, even though we
never would run on Oracle.
We should use, to whatever extent possible, "vanilla" SQL so that we
can easily port to a different DB engine if we want. I don't think we
would ever use Oracle, and I am *certain* we would never make changes
so that our software would *require* Oracle... for exactly the reason
you mention.
--Jimbo