Junior Job - external MySQL config

[Seb Ruiz]

2009/8/30 Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Seb Ruiz<ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> 2009/8/30 Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>:
>>> There are no plans for anything other than msyql support. In fact, it was a
>>> conscious decision to standardize on 1 database to make our life easier and to
>>> make the user experience better. We're not SQL experts, so it makes our head
>>> hurt to have to manage multiple.
>>>
>>> That said, just calling it "Database backend" could be misleading because it
>>> has to be a MySql database for it to work. I would vote for no combobox, b ut
>>> it has to be clear that it is Mysql.
>>>
>>
>> That said, if we can provide an adequate unit testing environment, we
>> should be able to create database tests to avoid regressions like we
>> had with 1.4. I'd love psql support.
>
> ...why?

Because when you use postgres, you realise that it is the database
that mysql should have been. For example: it is fast, it's robust,
extensible, and it doesn't do stupid things like truncate long text
fields silently.


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