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

[Jonathan Druart]

We are not giving up, we never really tried.
It could stay a long term goal, waiting for someone to work on it.
I don't think we should start again adding MySQLisms.

Le mar. 6 déc. 2022 à 02:49, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> a écrit :

> Hi all,
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> Should we formally give up on trying to provide PostgreSQL support?
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> I find it highly unlikely that we will ever provide it.
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> We may as well close issues like the following:
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> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7365
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> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7802
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> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11422
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> Over the last year or so, the Keycloak community has undergone a lot of
> conversations on database support.
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> Historically, it’s provided support for MariaDB, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle,
> PostgreSQL, and more.
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> 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:
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> https://www.keycloak.org/2022/02/dbs.html
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> https://www.keycloak.org/2022/07/storage-map.html
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> 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?
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> David Cook
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