On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <[email protected]>wrote:

> I was looking through this discussion and wanted to know how much of a
> priority is it for the community to run OpenMRS on Postgres or MSSQL?? Other
> than once-in-a-while mails on the dev list?? Is it our core motivation to
> have users choose what database they want OpenMRS to work on??
>  It is some amount of work (upgrading liquibase is definitely required,
> adding database drivers and changing mysql-specific - tinyint to smallint,
> longtext etc.).
>

Ideally, OpenMRS should run with the major databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres,
MSSQL, Oracle).  This is both to provide flexibility for implementations and
to avoid overly-committing OpenMRS to MySQL's future.


> Also among other things, I've yesterday had problems with simultaneous
> users (75+) using the system (16GB+ server) and getting out of memory and
> having to restart the system every 12-14hrs to release memory. The memory
> usage goes on increasing for Tomcat and restarting the server seems like the
> simple solution for the time being. I've heard Paul talk about a similar
> problem at AMPATH in one of the conf call recordings. Has there been a
> workaround at AMPATH or is restarting Tomcat the accepted solution?? I'm
> planning to host OpenMRS on Glassfish (with its better monitoring tools and
> VisualVM integration) and also write a performance monitoring module that
> uses javamelody <http://code.google.com/p/javamelody/>, but any
> suggestions in the meantime should be useful...
>

This might be better asked on the implementers list.  Hopefully any lessons
can be added here <https://wiki.openmrs.org/x/gxAz>.

Cheers,

-Burke


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>
> On 27 July 2011 18:18, Ben Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think this was the ticket I was thinking of:
>> https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-1925
>>
>> That ticket should be edited to be more general about supporting all
>> databases.  The removal of the "not exists" from the wizard is just one part
>> of that.
>>
>> The openmrs app does run on everything.  And I'm pretty sure the update
>> wizard / liquibase changesets run on everything.  So a quick fix would be to
>> install to mysql, then export the database tables and import those into
>> postgresql.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Suranga Kasthurirathne <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like you could do with an Openmrs Id,
>>>
>>> go to https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/OpenMRS+ID, and create your
>>> id, this will let you interact (and yes, create tickets) easily.
>>> once you create an id, you can use it to log in, and use JIRA.
>>>
>>> after signing in, go to
>>> https://tickets.openmrs.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa and click on 'create
>>> issue' (on the top right of screen).
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Sokha RUM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I look for the existing ticket, and i found a ticket TRUNK-1922 which is
>>>> about the supporting 6 types of database including also PostgreSQL. But
>>>> that
>>>> ticket is already in status "Fixed".
>>>>
>>>> One more thing i wanted to create a new ticket, but could not login. I
>>>> do
>>>> not know if i can use the account for joining community to access to
>>>> ticket
>>>> of OpenMRS.
>>>>
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