can't save booleans to a posgresql database

[Erik Hovland]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:37:49AM +0100, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> > > We really shouldn't try to support three different databases. :) It
> > > also doesn't help that the basic database code is all a hack.
> >
> > Please continue to do so. I use amarok with a postgresql database
> > exclusively. Also keep in mind that the file based databases can't be used
> > in any case (networked home dir). However, what is missing in the current
> > implementation is that several users can share the same (postgresql, mysql)
> > database, all having their own ratings, playlists, etc.
> 
> No. I agree with Ian here. We should not have to support 3 different
> database backends. There are several things that has to be taken into
> consideration here. While I know some users have very specific uses
> for other databases, it could be interesting to know what percentage
> of our users are actually using anything other than the default sqlite
> databse. I do get the feeling some times that we are spending an
> unproportionally large amount of time catering to a very small
> percentage of users in this case.

Just for the record, I use postgres instead of sqlite. Large collections
(over 3000 songs) are not workable with sqlite.

I only use postgres because it happens to be installed and ready to go
on my workstation. I do not have a preference between mysql or postgres.

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