[Koha] Some question: postgres, italian, ...

[Chris Cormack]

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
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