Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
By notifications I don't mean alerts or warnings; just a way to have some feedback from real users of the affected "feature", given I see little on the task itself. If someone took the trouble to pick PostgreSQL as their MediaWiki database, I expect they have some reason to do so and maybe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Strainu wrote: > Will the upgrade be seamless regardless of how they upgrade their > version? In the best-case scenario, they'll have to run update.php as with most other MediaWiki updates, and it'll update everything for them. I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 Thread Strainu
2017-08-17 16:50 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff : > Does it actually make sense to notify third parties using postgres about > the change? Its not like we are dropping support for it, and im doubtful > that random user using postgres with mediawiki has opinions on > implementation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 Thread Brian Wolff
Does it actually make sense to notify third parties using postgres about the change? Its not like we are dropping support for it, and im doubtful that random user using postgres with mediawiki has opinions on implementation details such as what specific features are used in the schema or would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks. I tried to notify some affected wikis but surprisingly there is only one registered on WikiApiary: https://bucardo.org/wiki/Special:Version With some very wide Google searches like 'postgresql "powered by mediawiki"', I found a few more: * https://www.alteeve.com/w/Special:Version *