On Mar 29, 2013, at 08:40 05, James Harrison wrote: > That said it'd be lovely to see PostgreSQL support in Rivendell, but I > recall Fred pointing out there was a lot of MySQL specific code in and > it'd take some doing.
Not much at all actually; and most of it in the routines in RDAdmin that configure access permissions when creating a new database. One could make a good argument that that functionality should never have been there in the first place, but rather should have been explicitly delegated to the DBA (which is how most LAMP applications --e.g. WordPress -- handle it). It's conceivable that it will disappear in a future version of RD. My rationale for MySQL has always been primarily pragmatic -- it works well, has a large community of users that understand it well and offers key high-end features --e.g. replication -- that are critical for use in HA environments. Above all, it has proven itself to be utterly reliable over 10+ years of use with RD -- I can't recall a single instance of data corruption over that time that was traceable to bug in it. I honestly don't know all that much about PostgreSQL and the other alternatives because I've never needed to -- MySQL 'just works'. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the | | system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, | | analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. | | -- Bruce Leverett | | "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
