[Koha-devel] Formally give up on trying to provide PostgreSQL DB support?

[David Cook]

Hi all,

 

Should we formally give up on trying to provide PostgreSQL support?

 

I find it highly unlikely that we will ever provide it. 

 

We may as well close issues like the following:

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7365

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7802

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11422

 

Over the last year or so, the Keycloak community has undergone a lot of
conversations on database support. 

 

Historically, it's provided support for MariaDB, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle,
PostgreSQL, and more. 

 

However, going forward, Keycloak plans to only provide first class support
for PostgreSQL and CockroachDB databases. CockroachDB uses the same wire
protocol as PostgreSQL, so really they're supporting 1 database type. You
can read more about it all at the following links:

https://www.keycloak.org/2022/02/dbs.html

https://www.keycloak.org/2022/07/storage-map.html 

 

Personally, I really like PostgreSQL. I use it for a number of other
projects. But I think we're pretty wedded to MySQL/MariaDB with Koha, and
maybe we just need to own that?

 

David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

Suite 7.03

6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Online: 02 8005 0595

 

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