[Mageia-dev] database servers

Fri Mar 11 10:54:39 CET 2011

* Oliver Burger (oliver.bgr at googlemail.com) wrote:
+> 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?
+
+I'll do it ASAP.
+
+But you have to know I did the hardest part of the work
+in mandriva and now packaging postgresq is quite easy, including
+updating to minor version.
+
+> 
+> On a related item I would like to ask, if we are going to provide mariadb as 
+> an alternative for mysql.
+> 
+> Oliver
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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