[isf-wifidog] Again: Database support - this time not about MySQL ; )

[François Proulx]

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I would say, let's move to a standardized DB abstraction when we have  
some spare time. either PDO or PEAR DB and we will be very close to  
support more dbms...


On 27-Feb-2006, at 13:00 , Max Horváth wrote:

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> Yeah, I agree ... and what I basically meant if it would be maybe a  
> plan for the future to support Oracle. I mean, what advantage would  
> it be for a WiFiDog auth server when running on a Oracle database  
> instead of running it on Postgres? So would be even useful to  
> support Oracle in the WiFiDog 2.0 release (for what developers  
> could use Oracle XE)?
>
> Cheers, Max!
>
> Am 27.02.2006 um 16:16 schrieb Benoit Grégoire:
>
>> On February 27, 2006 09:10 am, Max Horváth wrote:
>>> - gpg control packet
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> today Oracle released the final version of Oracle 10 XE ...  
>>> basically
>>> a Oracle 10g 10.2 database server with resource restrictions only .
>>> It means the database is restricted to 1 instance, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM
>>> and a maximum database size of 4 GB.
>>>
>>> Nonetheless I was thinking about if we'd support Oracle as it has
>>> great replication and scalability features. As far as I know  
>>> Postgres
>>> SQL server uses almost the same SQL definitions as Oracle does -  
>>> so I
>>> think supporting and maintaining Oracle wouldn't be as heavy as it
>>> was with MySQL.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I think the same arguments for supporting a single database  
>> apply.  It would
>> possibly be slightly less painfull to support Oracle, but the  
>> target market
>> is probably two orders of magnitude smaller.  All the testing and  
>> concurrent
>> developpement dificulties would remain.
>>
>> In any event, multi-master replication is disabled in 10 XE, which  
>> would be
>> it's only potential advantage over postgres.
>>
>> -- 
>> Benoit Grégoire, http://benoitg.coeus.ca/
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