> But... The tutorials I've been reading online all recommend > PostgreSQL. I don't care, I'll go that route, but the online server > I am currently using only offers MySQL. Are these two engines > compatible, or am I going to have to go against what the tutorial > advises and intall MySQL on my machine?
If you stick to Django's ORM, you should be pretty safe as it abstracts away many of the DB-specific portions. Areas to watch: 1) if you use any calls to .extra() that use DB-specific functionality 2) possibly some GIS-related functionality (django.contrib.gis) may be limited if you don't run PostgreSQL or Oracle. I haven't deep-dived into that code, but I know it does exploit some of the benefits that pg uses 3) if you use a raw connection.cursor to execute custom SQL, you're walking in territory that may not port from one DB to another 4) if you use any sort of initial-sql functionality that does DB-specific things. You'll notice the common theme of "if you do something DB specific, $PROBLEM may occur (or may require special attention to making it DB-portable)" which is the gist of the whole thing. :) -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
