[Koha-devel] Koha and MariaDB - lets switch and start testing

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
> hi Folks
>
> i am just sending out an email to encourage Koha developers to switch to MariaDB for their Koha dev/testing/QA work
>

I've been singing this tune for awhile and am still all for it. :-)

> fyi: 6 weeks ago, i switched to MariaDB for my dev and QA work, so far - ZERO problems :)

There are a couple of gotchas as MariaDB's sql seems to be a bit
stricter in some places. I'll try to remember to have a look tomorrow
at my old dev repo which I ran over MariaDB for about a year. I think
I have some patches for the areas I found. Nothing major, though.

.... time passes ....

I found them and attached them to the bug we opened for this very long ago:

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5366

They may or may not apply at this point, but should at least indicate
where I found issues.

Kind Regards,
Chris