On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matej Hasul <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Gurjeet Singh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Devan Goodwin <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:48:16 +0100 >>> Matej Hasul <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hello everyone, >>> > I will try to port spacewalk DB to mysql as part of my master's >>> > thesis. >>> > >>> > I installed spacewalk server and 2 clients and tried some basic >>> > operations (installing/removing packages, configuration channel, etc). >>> > >>> > In following days I will browse DB schema and try to identify what >>> > functionality is mysql missing and how to replace it. >>> > >>> > Any help, suggestions or tips are appreciated. >>> > >>> > Matej Hasul >>> >>> With a PostgreSQL effort underway, could you outline why you're driven >>> to add the MySQL support? What advantages does it offers over >>> PostgreSQL? >>> >>> Would you have interest in participating in the PostgreSQL porting >>> effort first? >>> >> >> This is what I was also going to ask... >> >> Matej, can you not work on Postgres porting as part of your thesis? Just >> curious. >> > > Well, here is the story. At the beginning I was looking for thesis topic. I > found mysql support for spacewalk, which sounds good and useful to me. > Practical part of thesis was porting DB schema to mysql. Then I met my > thesis leader (not Miroslav, other one). He told me, that porting DB schema > as practical part and describing differences between oracle and mysql as > theoretical part will not pass because there was thesis with similar > theoretical part done recently. So we decided to include performance > analysis (performance diffs) to theoretical part. I can't do performance > analysis without spacewalk in mysql (or at least part of it), so porting to > mysql is prerequisite. > > In my opinion, I can do performance diffs analysis on oracle+postgres > instead of oracle+mysql and help with porting to postgres. But this should > be decided and approved by both thesis leaders. > >> I discussed it with thesis leaders and final conclusion is that I will stay with mysql. Miroslav Suchy adviced me to use mysql proxy ( http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy). Main advantage of this solution is that there is no need for mysql DB schema. >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> gurjeet[[email protected] >> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com >> >> singh.gurj...@{ gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel >> > >
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