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

[Katrin Fischer]

On 07.12.22 21:59, Jonathan Druart wrote:
> 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.

+1

My question would also be how this decision would impact our coding
guidelines.

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