State of the MySQL support

Mario Frank mafrank at uni-potsdam.de
Wed Aug 9 20:27:01 BST 2017


Hey Guys and Ladies,

as you probably have seen the current problem with moving tags in the
hierarchy making
the DB corrupt, I would like to address this in a broader way.

I am aware that the MySQL support is experimental (for a quite long time).
But I also experience that users complaining about problems in
combination with MySQL
becomes more frequent. The long-established devs of you may have other
experiences,
so correct me if my experience is due to my quite short time in the
digiKam world.

As I am trying to fix the current problem, this is no overall solution
to the experimental state.

So, what I like to address is the following:
1) Do we have some "specialists" in MySQL in our ranks? I am no
specialist here, I am more experienced in postgres.
2) Could we determine how many users are affected by such problems, i.e.
what is the ratio of MySQL users?
3) What are the plans for MySQL support?
4) Is further support for other DBMS desirable (I think of postgres)?

Regards,
Mario



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