Hi, 2010/11/4 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com>:
http://www.mysql.com/products/ I imagine this is going to impact Koha quite a bit, as Koha has been using InnoDB for quite a while now. Switch to Postgres?
In the short term, since MySQL and InnoDB are GPL, Oracle can't make the current code just disappear, but obviously the long-term prospects are not clear. In the medium term, adding support for MariaDB could help -- it gives us an upgrade to 5.1, is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, and uses a replacement for InnoDB called XtraDB that looks like an improvement. On the other hand, packaging is a bit lacking at present. Drizzle also looks interesting, but it would require more work to remove the MySQLisms from Koha that Drizzle doesn't use. As far as Postgres support is concerned, I'm all for it. Of course, Chris' DBIx::Class RFC [1] is the current candidate for starting to get there. However, I would point out that a full implementation of DBIx::Class does not guarantee that we'll also get full Postgres support for 3.4; there is a lot of testing that would need to be done. [1] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/RFC_for_using_DBIx_Class_in_Koha Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt@gmail.com