postgresql support

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bernhard Auzinger
<nordpolcamper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 19:41:34 schrieb Soren Harward:
>> On Friday 17 October 2008 13:30:23 Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
>> > I recently wanted to upgrade to amarok2 (1.90) but did not find any
>> > support for postgresql databases. Has the support be gone or will it be
>> > implemented later in the development?
>>
>> The only database back end that currently exists in Amarok 2 is the MySQL
>> embedded server.  Regular MySQL server support will come back some time in
>> the future as a "do it yourself by editing the config file" option.  But
>> PostgreSQL is gone and won't be coming back, and neither will support for
>> any other database.
>
> Oh, that's a pitty. I really like the postgresql rdbms. But on the other hand
> I can understand that it can be difficult for the developers to maintain an
> interface for different databases.
>
> What does "mysql embedded server" mean? Is it a reduced version of the mysql
> database server or is it called embedded beacause it's integrated into
> amarok2's source code?

It's exactly the same as a normal MySQL setup, except that it does not
require any configuration like setting up a DB user, etc. And it does
not start a dedicated mysqld process, but runs in the Amarok process.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org