the issue is not the mysql versus postgres DBD, it is what they wrote the sql to be.
If a product only supports mysql, it will often use mysql proprietary syntax that will not work in postgres. -Steve On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Jason Hall wrote: > Well, if you are just using the DBI, then you just change your connect > string and everything else works. Nobody should be using just a straight > DBD itself. > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Grant Shipley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Being a non perl developer, I would assume they have an ORM library you >> could use. >> >> -- >> gs >> >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:58 AM, DANIEL DAVID EGLI <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> *Does anyone know of a (hacked?) Perl DBD driver that reroutes mysql >> calls >>> to pgsql calls? I'm in process of designing a web site that will rely >>> heavily on postgresql, but I also need to incorporate bugzilla which, >> last >>> I looked, relies exclusively on mysql. I'd rather not go through the >> hassle >>> of having two different database engines running on the same machine. So >> I >>> figured I'd look into ways of tricking (for lack of a better term) >> bugzilla >>> to work on pgsql. Obviously the first method is to rewrite all the >> bugzilla >>> files. But that's a LOT of files. I figured it would be a heck of a lot >>> less work to have a fake DBD::MySQL that in turn calls the function calls >>> of DBD::PGSQL for each of it's functions. If anyone knows of a site I >> could >>> download such a Perl driver for, I'd be grateful. Or a site where I could >>> download a Bugzilla that is already converted to PostgreSQL would be good >>> too.* >>> >>> * * >>> >>> *Thanks!* >>> >>> * * >>> >>> *--- Dan* >>> >>> /* >>> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >>> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >>> Don't fear the penguin. >>> */ >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > > > -- > Jayce^ > > Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers > ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */
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