RE: [Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] latest on PostgreSQL

[Ervin Peters]

--On Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 13:55 +0100 "Anthony W. Youngman" 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> One (to me extremely annoying) nitpick. Using SQL does NOT make it
> db-independent. It merely makes it rdb-independent ...
>
> I had an offline discussion with Pat about MaVerick, which is not > a 
relational database but is probably more suited to Koha than
> SQL.
> Unfortunately, the hassle of switching (plus the fact MaVerick is
> immature) probably means an attempt at changing isn't worth it.
encapsulating the datacollection and -manipulation functions would easily 
allow everyone to use its prevered datamanagement...
...by stepping over the fact that the code still has to be build.
> btw, Andrew, please can you get rid of that damn flag ... :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
> (if you're interested, www.maverick-dbms.org)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Arensburger [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 07 October 2002 13:49
> To: Ervin Peters
> Cc: Richard Davis; address@hidden;
> address@hidden  Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Re: [Koha]
> latest on PostgreSQL
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Ervin Peters wrote:
> > But i think we should better discuss either to get it db- independent by
> > using only Ansi SQL or to specify the dbs in koha.conf, like 'dbs =
> > [mysql|pgsql|oracle|sap|ansiSQL]'
>
>         The current version in CVS already allows you to do this: use
> the (undocumented) "db_scheme" configuration option in /etc/koha.conf:
>
>         db_scheme = Pg
>
>
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Ervin Peters
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