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 Armstrongbarmstr...@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
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