[Kde-pim] Experiences with PostgreSQL backend (was: Re: ... MySQL backend: tuning for larger accounts...)

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Thursday 27 of March 2014 11:27:58 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2014, 10:54:16 schrieb Daniel Vrátil:
> > On Wednesday 26 of March 2014 16:58:35 GEO wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 March 2014 15:04:27 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > > > MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so it's supported by
> > > > default
> > > > (I've  been using MariaDB instead of MySQL for over year before I
> > > > switched
> > > > to PSQL)
> > > 
> > > Just interested: You use the akonadi postgresql backend as your default
> > > one?
> > 
> > Yes, and I'm a happy man now :-)
> 
> Why? What did it improve?

I was having problems with data corruption when using MariaDB. No idea why.

> 
> I used it once, but still before the pre-mail times of Akonadi, as KMail was
> not using it yet. Both with Akonadi started and central PostgreSQL.

Lot has changed since then :-)

> 
> I wondered about the support in Akonadi and I wondered about upgrades
> between major PostgreSQL versions

We now have a PostgreSQL developer on our side (klando), who has improved the 
way we detect, start and stop PostgreSQL server in Akonadi in 1.12 a lot.  I 
don't know about upgrades between PSQL version, but I dare to assume they work 
just fine :-)

Dan


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