Re: advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
>
>> There's been a big move in the php community to push people towards
>> php5 (one of which was EOL of php4), which has started to pay off.
>> I'd guess that if they wanted to, they could switch to PDO with
>> Drupal 7 and not hurt themselves too much.
>
> When I spoke with Dries about this issue one of the big hold backs
> wasn't PHP 4 but actually MySQL 3. When Drupal 6, MySQL 3 is not
> longer supported. So they can actually do some nicer stuff (like
> foreign keys) etc..
>
> I am sure that with PHP5 things will improve as well.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
Let me just sneak in a quick rant here, from somebody who really doesn't
matter.

We run drupal for our corporate intranet (currently being built) and we
use postgreSQL as the backend. Some of the modules and things don't work
perfectly, but drupal supported it and that made me happy enough to work
with it. Now after reading this garbage, I'm extremely disappointed.
Completely dropping postgresql capability might not affect them too
largely in the huge run, because a large amount of their user base is
using mySQL, but it would send a message to those of us that believe in
choice. I'm afraid that they're choosing the route of convenience over
their users, and every time I think about it I want to go looking for
replacements.

It'd be easier to build drupal to only run on mySQL, but then again it'd
be easy to build postgreSQL to only run on linux and forget about the
windows users. I know it's not their duty to make drupal work with
postgresql, but if they drop it like they're talking about, I'll be
making a push here and to everyone I know who uses drupal to switch to
another system, whether they're running postgres or not. If drupal 6
absolutely doesn't support postgres, then I'm dropping my drupal 5
install on the spot. This is a cold move drupal, and you should be ashamed.

Sorry, I'll end the rant here.

BTW, I'm a PHP developer who uses postgreSQL almost exclusively and I'm
on this list as well as other postgres lists constantly (even if as a
reader most of the time). If they have this big of an issue, why not ask
for help?

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