Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote:
>>> I recall the devs explicitly stating early enough in the KDE4
>> development that
>>> sqlite is not man enough for the job and advising everyone to move
>> over to
>>> mysql.
>>>
>>> Someone was looking at postgresql as an alternative to mysql, but I'm
>> not sure
>>> that this would bring any benefit.
>>
>>
>> pg is a fine database, but for this use will always be a 2nd class
>> citizen. Most users will already have mysql installed, or will be
>> willing to install it.
>>
>> The number of folks with pg and without mysql will probably be small
>
> Not necessarily.
> People who care about databases actually supporting SQL properly and performing properly will prefer PostgreSQL.
>
> I don't like to be forced to run a MySQL instance as well. It's often the laziness of developers that causes the difficulty of supporting a different database when they started with MySQL.
> If you start with a different one, like PostgrSQL, supporting different database engines is very simple.


I don't think you read what I said.

I didn't say postgresql shouldn't be supported, I said it would always
end up being a second class citizen as the number of people who'd be
happy with mysql will vastly outnumber the number of people who highly
desire postgresql. So, logically, a postgresql driver in this case will
probably just bitrot away. Whihc nicely explains the likely reason why
that driver is not there.

People like yourself who care about databases are very much in the
minority of users, even on Linux. Most users across the boards just
don't give a shit. Them's the breaks.



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com