[Koha-devel] Adding support for PostgreSQL, no new MySQLisms, please

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi Marc,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:

> Dear Koha-Devels,
>
> during the Marseille Hackfest 2012 I started together with Stephane and
> Christophe from BibLibre to add support for the PostgreSQL database.
> The ultimate goal of this work is that Koha can run on a PostgreSQL
> server as as good as it does now on a MySQL server.
>
> This mostly boils down to removing the MySQLisms in the current code,
> which I am currently doing.  The collect-all-activity bug for this is
> 7365, it holds dependencies to the individual bugs like 7802, 7806 etc.
> (more to come, obviously).  There is also a wiki page
> wiki.koha-community/wiki/PostgreSQL which I update frequently.
>
>
This is good work. I attempted to start this years ago, but soon dropped it
due to my schedule.


> This work also means that you must not add new MySQLisms in new code.
>

...


>
> And please be advised that adding MySQLisms in new code will fail in QA.
>
>
While I agree with this proposition, we are not in the habit as a community
of individual developers (or even groups of developers) "dictating" coding
practices. The accepted procedure to follow is to present the
change/addition via the list to solicit discussion and obtain consensus on
the proposition.

Furthermore, what "will" and "will not" pass QA is subject to
the discretion of the community appointed QA manager, not other individuals.

So I would suggest that we solicit some comment on this to give the
community the opportunity to express its desire.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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