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

[Fridolin SOMERS]

+1 for giving up.
We can focus on other cool features ;)

Le 05/12/2022 à 15:49, David Cook a écrit :
> 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=7365>
> 
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7802 
> <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7802>
> 
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11422 
> <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/2022/02/dbs.html>
> 
> https://www.keycloak.org/2022/07/storage-map.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
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Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers at biblibre.com>
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