On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:17, Andrea Brugiolo wrote:
Again, people have mentioned postgres as a desired platform. I don't know that anyone has done more than mention it. I'd like to see Koha be DB independent. Maybe through Perl DBI? It would be great. Unless Koha needs any special feature of one particular DB/MySQL ...
Hi There, Koha was originally built and designed with PostgreSQL as its database backend, but for a variety of reasons was ported to mysql. So in theory it should just be a matter of changing the DBI connect in C4::Database to use DBD::Pg rather than DBD::MySQL. Having said that, im sure some mysqlisms have crept into the code over the last 2-3 years. So im sure a little bit of code cleanup will be needed as well.
Are you interested in helping with this effort? I hope I can afford it (== have enough spare time)
The more developers the merrier :) Chris -- Chris Cormack chris@katipo.co.nz Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications www.katipo.co.nz