[Mageia-dev] database servers

Fri Mar 11 08:30:21 CET 2011

Hi,
+
+because of the alpha2 iso thread I was just looking at the available database 
+servers in Mageia.
+Especially keeping my eye on postgres.
+
+At the moment, we have only one version of postgres: postgresql9.0-9.0.2. I 
+would like to have at least posgresql8.4 as well for compatibility reasons. 
+Even between minor version changes of postgres, there sometimes are changes in 
+the database format or the syntax which force you to rewrite a lot of 
+application code using postgres and dump your databases, update and restore 
+them.
+Normally this is working nicely, but if you are using extensions to postgres 
+like postgis and so on (which may or may not be packaged and thus be selve 
+compiled), it can be a pain in the ass.
+
+I (as a padawan packager) feel not up to packaging something like postgres, so 
+I would like to ask if someone else would?
+
+On a related item I would like to ask, if we are going to provide mariadb as 
+an alternative for mysql.
+
+Oliver
+