We tried this before, and I'd love to see it happen. Take a look at the abstract-schema branch in SVN for what we did.
-Chad On Aug 18, 2012 1:53 PM, "Daniel Friesen" <[email protected]> wrote: > We've got a nice abstract query system but our table creation and > migrations are horrible. We re-write them for multiple database engines. > And as a result extensions need to do the same and often don't. Leading to > things being a mess for databases other than MySQL. > > While I was doing the sites stuff a syntax for defining tables came to > mind and I wrote out an RfC for a method of defining our database > abstractly. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Requests_for_comment/** > Abstract_table_definitions<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abstract_table_definitions> > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
