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

[Antoine Musso]

Le 12/06/12 14:14, Mark A. Hershberger a écrit :
> On 6/12/2012 4:18 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, David Gerard wrote:
>>
>>> MediaWiki is ridiculously overoptimised toward MySQL. This sucks in
>>> many ways, but it's also true.
>> OK. Any chances of getting PostgreSQL support first-tier upstream?
>> Not necessarily replacing your current data…whatever, but at least
>> acceptance.
> 
> I recall that Antoine Musso (CC'd) was working on getting PG to be one
> of the databases that Jenkins regularly ran tests against.
> 
> In any case, getting PG into the testing infrastructure would be a good
> first step to improving it support.   I'd be willing to help make this
> happen in whatever way I can.
> 
> Mark.

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Hello,

Running tests against postgre / Oracle whatever is down to the very
bottom of the priority list. Sorry :-/

I will definitely add support for MySQL whenever I have sometime to
actually handle that. From there, it would be probably easy to add
postgre as a backend.

cheers,

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso