Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2010-01-11 Thread Pablo A. Bianchi
Just an article about MySQL, and a reason to think about PostgreSQL: http://ostatic.com/blog/the-state-of-postgresql-not-so-easy-to-kil Some trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=PostgreSQL%2C+mysql ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org h

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-03 Thread ricardo mendoza
> > > You are right Colin, that way many people who do not have much programming experience can make a contribution, not expecting to find that the code was mostly koha perl, my basic rudiments are programming in python, so for now they work in things that are much more according to my capacities t

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 02/12/09 21:13, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Joe Atzberger wrote: > >> Chris' work is encouraging. ORM classes are definitely a different way >> of thinking about data though. The mapping is its own little ecosystem, >> and will require the structure to be maintained and updated (much like >> kohas

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Joe Atzberger wrote: > Chris' work is encouraging. ORM classes are definitely a different way > of thinking about data though. The mapping is its own little ecosystem, > and will require the structure to be maintained and updated (much like > kohastructure.sql and updatedatabase). One great thi

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM, ricardo mendoza wrote: > What you mean Joe, is that it's much better to work with a layer of > abstraction, regardless of the database used. > Yes, that's right. So it is better to move in that direction instead of trying to convert one particular form of SQL to a

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread ricardo mendoza
Chris, is good to hear this, for a long time I thought that koha never be able to give full support to postgresql, but I see that this is the way to get started. I am reviewing the code of 3.0.4, I want to make some contribution to koha, but I'm not a professional programmer so I have to start with

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread ricardo mendoza
What you mean Joe, is that it's much better to work with a layer of abstraction, regardless of the database used. Ricardo, ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Cormack
2009/12/3 Joe Atzberger : > This isn't going to happen any time soon, if ever.  It is, in my opinion, a > waste of time to try to convert all the existing SQL statements and > structure to be both mysql and PG-compatible, leading to a lot of > duplication in almost every C4 subroutine.  In particul

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Cormack
2009/12/3 Joe Atzberger : > This isn't going to happen any time soon, if ever.  It is, in my opinion, a > waste of time to try to convert all the existing SQL statements and > structure to be both mysql and PG-compatible, leading to a lot of > duplication in almost every C4 subroutine.  In particul

Re: [Koha-devel] koha with better support for postgresql

2009-12-02 Thread Joe Atzberger
This isn't going to happen any time soon, if ever. It is, in my opinion, a waste of time to try to convert all the existing SQL statements and structure to be both mysql and PG-compatible, leading to a lot of duplication in almost every C4 subroutine. In particular, such effort could be more frui