[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 127321] CORE : Allow to use another database backends such as PostgreSQL through QtSQL plugin

[Greg Tippitt]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127321

--- Comment #36 from Greg Tippitt <gtippitt at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Geert Janssens from comment #5)
> I have another good reason to ask for other backends: multi-user support.
> 
> I would like to setup digikam for multiple users (on several PC's) that all
> access a central photo repository on a server. In a very limited way, this
> is already possible but sharing tags, comments and other metadata is quite
> troublesome.
> Using a central database shared by all of these users would go a long way is
> solving this issue.
> 
> By the way, I propose altering the version to 0.10.x (or at least 0.9.x). I
> don't think this feature request would be implemented anymore for 0.8.x.

I'm working to develop a system for a client company that wanted to use 
Digikam for their photographers  and have its workflow data incorporated into
the PostgreSQL database used by their Odoo  ERP system running on a cloud
server.  The inability to use other databases severely limits  Digikam's
usefulness to professional photographers.  Poor database support and the
inability to save a set of batch tool processing that could be called from the
command line to apply to a group of files are two things that limit Digikam's
usefulness to hobbyist and self employed photographers working alone.  This is
really a shame for a program that is so good otherwise with support for unique
functions such as non-destructive edits.  My client's request seemed simple. 
To allow photographers to move raw images from their cameras to a network
folder, where a server with several CPU cores would apply a set of Digikam
edits, after which graphic artists could then finish work on the images.  It is
really difficult to explain to my non-programmer client why Digikam doesn't
support doing something this simple, given its many other features. 
Unfortunately I'm a Python developer rather than C++, so I can't make the
changes she wants to Digikam.  As result, I loosing the contract to someone
she's hired to implement the system using Windows and Adobe software.

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