I think I agree with the decision that the Heroku team took to support Postgresql only if thats what makes sense for them.
One of the claimed selling points for Rails itself is that switching between databases is supposed to be trivial. Calling something a plugin implies that it is supposed to be generic enough to be reusable in many different environments (especially when we are talking about free database engines). If an author of a Rails plugin can't be bothered to verify compatibility with more than one database engine, then, IMHO, he's producing shoddy work, and I certainly don't think that the Heroku guys have to ensure that everyone's shoddy product has to work on their platform On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brian Armstrong<barmstr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > agreed, these are all viable workarounds...but really, you don't want > to add a caveat like "easy rails deployment - if you don't mind > editing SQL in some plugins" > > I guess there are some licensing issues going on with MySQL, so I > understand if it's not easy. > > On May 3, 7:06 pm, giorgio <george.pever...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree that using searchval.downcase like lower(blah) works fine and >> I have been doing this since discovering that Postgres searches were >> case sensitve. >> >> However it is a pain and can still catch you out when you forget and >> of course it works fine in development. >> >> Having a different database in development/test and in production is a >> recipe for problems however I have not yet bit the bullet and >> installed postgres locally as it just seems like more complications >> when I have multiplemysqldatabases already. >> >> I would guess that more people usemysqlthan anything else. (but I >> could well be wrong!) >> >> Cheers >> george > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
