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