[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Fwd: Re: MediaWiki patches in Debian.

[David Gerard]

On 12 June 2012 08:16, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:

> MySQL is not a database,


Er, do you really mean that as you wrote it?


> Honestly, if MW does not work with PostgreSQL, either that’s going
> to be fixed or MW is abandoned.


It is factually the case that MySQL is well-supported in MediaWiki and
Postgres is barely-supported, and that if you're directing users to
Postgres *in preference to* MySQL when both are available, you're
actively steering them wrong.


- d.