Alesh-
Actually, we haven't planned on addressing this, since we're not in the business of
providing end-user support. Rather, we rely on people either learning how to maintain
things themselves or hiring someone who knows. But then again, our toolkit is not
aimed at end-users, it's aimed at developers who want to build web applications.
What we're after is to make it easy to get our software installed and start playing
around with it, without any need to learn anything to get the first page served. I'd
hope that the PosgreSQL group would do their best to make maintenance easy.
Btw, speaking of interchangeable RBMS's, that path is unfortunately not possible for
us. The differences between different RDBMS products are too large for us to even try
that. We rely heavily on procedural programming in the database. Also, the differences
in areas like outer joins, referential integrity, object-relational features, the
handling of long strings and maximum key lengths, just to name a few, make it
difficult to use one database as a drop-in replacement for another. Porting to a new
DB is far from a mechanical process. It requires ingenuity in coming up with
workarounds for the deficiencies of one RDBMS vis-a-vis another, and generally
requires that our entire datamodel is rewritten.
/Lars
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alesh Mustar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lars Pind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros
> Lars,
>
> you opened this question yourself in the first part of your email, how
> will user maintain it? Beside default installs in distributions, any plans
> on solving this question?
>
> Alesh
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Lars Pind wrote:
>
> > Hi Gnucash-people
> >
> > I witnessed a talk by Linas at the NYLUG meeting this past Wednesday, and there
>was some talk about using PostgreSQL as a back-end storage for GNUCash.
> >
> > Linas said that one of the major obstacles would be the support issue -- stepping
>people through installing and setting up PostgreSQL, not to speak of maintaining it.
> >
> > We at ArsDigta/OpenACS (arsdigita.com, openacs.org) are in a similar situation.
>We're about to get our product, ACS, included on RedHat and a number of other
>distros, but we depend on a running PostgreSQL installation. So far, we've planned on
>installing and setting up PostgreSQL ourselves, with some RPM and shell script magic.
> >
> > But Linas' talk sparked this idea: Wouldn't it be a lot more clever if we could
>convince the distros to make a running, configured PostgreSQL installation part of
>the default install, for the benefit of all? Application developers could then start
>relying on a working PostgreSQL installation, so they could concentrate on adding
>value instead.
> >
> > We're already trying to use our influence to make this happen, but the more the
>merrier.
> >
> > I'd like to hear how interested you would be in this, if we could make it happen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > /Lars
> >
> >
> >
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