Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré
On jeu, 2008-01-17 at 21:25 +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > Joshua posted the link to Edison's project that can support pg, MS > SQL, Oracle, DB2(?)... but well I had the feeling that Edison is a bit > ostracised. While I wouldn't define his work a DB AL... well it works > so kudos! > Unfort

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 4:11p -0500 on 17 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote: The guy sets my "jerk" alarms ringing like a 5 alarm fire. He doesn't play well with others, he constantly starts fights, and he threatens to take his ball and go home every time he loses. I don't care how much code he writes, I don't think he's

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:52:37 -0500 "Alex Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I evaluated Drupal with PostgreSQL, but it wasn't powerful enough, > and it's written in PHP which is buggy, and lots of modules force > you to use MySQL which is not ACID (I'm sorry but inserting > 31-Feb-2008 and not t

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tom Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: [snip] > > To a large degree, I think Karoly has blown the situation out of > > proportion. Look at how it affects _this_ list every time he starts > > bitching, for example. > > > > > Is it just Karoly (chx) who has all these t

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Alex Turner
I evaluated Drupal with PostgreSQL, but it wasn't powerful enough, and it's written in PHP which is buggy, and lots of modules force you to use MySQL which is not ACID (I'm sorry but inserting 31-Feb-2008 and not throwing an error by default makes you non-ACID in my book). PostgreSQL support was s

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 17, 2008 1:43 PM, Tom Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously emotion has gotten the better of me which is why I won't post > to the drupal boards/lists Really, honestly, you're controlling it quite well. Passion is fine. As long as the lists stay civil, passion has its place. > (I m

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:03:43 -0500 Tom Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Hart
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Tom Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 wor

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tom Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 sw

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Hart
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

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Robert Treat wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2008 21:00, Greg Smith 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

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 21:00, Greg Smith wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > Furthermore I think that developing in such a MySQLish centric way > > will make MUCH harder to support any other DB not only PostgreSQL and > > freedom of choice is very important to me. > >

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: Furthermore I think that developing in such a MySQLish centric way will make MUCH harder to support any other DB not only PostgreSQL and freedom of choice is very important to me. Having helped out a bit getting Postnuke working better with Pos

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:12:07 +0100 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Among Drupal developer there is such kind of discussion over and over > recently: > > http://drupal4hu.com/node/64 I commented here. > I'd ask to all th

[GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Hi, Among Drupal developer there is such kind of discussion over and over recently: http://drupal4hu.com/node/64 I'd be too PostgreSQL biased to comment further... my point of view is not too different from the one expressed by Steve Rude at the bottom of the page. Furthermore I think that deve