On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:00, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > Hi, > > is there a reason why PostgreSQL is not supported, other than that the > developers mainly use MySQL?
No. Well, and maybe the restricted time of the developers is also an issue ;-) We would happily integrate patches towards fixing this. > Today I tried installing SMW 0.5 on > PostgreSQL 8.1.5 (with MediaWiki 1.8.2), and basically all it takes is a > couple of different SQL commands in smw_storage.php. It was a twenty > minute fix for me. Since no other scripts use data definition language, > it should do the job as far as I can see. It would be trivial to > integrate this into the release version, all it takes would be a check > which database we are using. Great. Could you just forward the patch or the patched file (or point me towards a page documenting the differences we have to take into account)? > > In the future, it would also require some changes in the SMWAdmin code, > but since nobody is running old SMW versions on Postgres that could wait > until the release after the next. I would very much appreciate if someone who actually uses PostgreSQL could maintain this. We will certainly assist the process, but we have little or no experience with PostgreSQL at the moment. -- Markus > > Philipp > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user -- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717
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