On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >> Given those criteria, I think that the following have "full support" >> in MediaWiki: >> * MySQL >> * SQLite >> * PostgreSQL > > In practice, though, SQLite and PostgreSQL are more likely to break > than MySQL, right? If so, we should make this clear in the installer > UI. Or are they really about as well-supported as MySQL these days, > minus a moderate lag in schema updates for pgsql? > > Ideally, we could run test suites by default on all available DBs > instead of just on the one the wiki currently uses. In particular, > SQLite currently uses the same schema as MySQL and is available in PHP > by default, plus it doesn't require any setup (providing admin login, > etc.), so it would be great if we could run SQLite tests right now > whenever people run tests. It would be great if people could set up > pgsql to automatically run too, but that would require manual setup. > This is the kind of thing automated tests are really helpful for. > (But that's kind of tangential.)
Out of curiosity - what regression test suites are in use to QA MW builds? Thanks... -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
