why is there so much "weird shit" in akonadi/kdepim?

[Anders Lund]

søndag den 15. december 2019 09.34.50 CET skrev Ianseeks:
> On Saturday, 14 December 2019 17:58:09 GMT salamandir wrote:
> > On Thursday, 12 December 2019 23:12:04 PST Ianseeks, an eminent
> > manifestation> 
> > of divinity, wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:22:18 GMT Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > > akonadi is junk, abandonware. we are stuck with it but it has no
> > > > champion.
> > > > a bad situation. switch to postgres and restart it twice every day and
> > > > you will be able to use kontact. a fine trade.
> > > 
> > > moving to postgres has definitely made things a lot better for me
> > 
> > if this is the case, is there any plan for making postgres (or something
> > other than akonadi) default in a future release?
> 
> Sorry, i have no idea - thats a choice for the distro/devs etc

Switching to pgsql is very simple - install it and change a single line in  
~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc:
Driver=QPSQL

Before editing the file run
$ akonadictl stop

and after
$akonadictl start

--
kindly,
Anders