Sifiso and Campbell,

There is an ongoing vote about the use of Postgres DB only in Apache
Fineract.

You can participate as non-binding

Regards

Victor

El lun, 23 mar 2026 a las 13:23, Sifiso Mtetwa (<[email protected]>)
escribió:

> Hi James,
>
> We have around 40 MFIs running on MariaDB and it would be an absolute
> necessity that we have migration scripts to facilitate this new move to
> Postgres. Without it they would be stuck on the old fork.
>
> Regards,
>
> *From:* Campbell Burgess [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, 23 March 2026 19:19
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: End support of mySQL and MariaDB; migration tooling
> related to FSIP-9,
>
>
>
> We'll help sponsor that.
>
> Campbell
>
> On 3/23/2026 11:25 AM, James Dailey wrote:
>
> The vote on FSIP-9 entails the idea that *someone* should make efforts to
> build migration scripts.  As that vote ends in 48 hrs, now is another good
> moment of focus.
>
>
>
> "With this proposal we will make an effort but *we are not committing* to
> migration guides, scripts, tests, tools, wizards, and case studies easing
> database migrations. The community is strongly encouraged to *gather
> real-world data*, to share and discuss this proposal with all users,
> encouraging them to create or sponsor creation of these
> critically important migration materials."
>
>
>
> As with all things on this open source project, if there is interest in
> doing it, it can occur.
>
>
>
> First up is "Gather real world data".  How many entities require this
> migration work?   Can we get at least two good examples?  More?
>
>
>
> I suspect that any organization still using mySQL or MariaDB is on a very
> old fork of the project and has no interest in upgrading to the latest
> releases.  If that is wrong, someone should provide data to support that.
> They have not spoken up specifically.  We must hear from them.
>
>
>
> For scripts and guides to have meaning, they need users.
>
>
>
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