Posted by mikeprinsloo on April 29, 2010 at 12:46pm
Is anyone working on Postgres support for Aegir?
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interesting
it'd be interesting to know if aegir actually works flawlessly with postgresql. especially when knowing that mysql has been acquired by Oracle and moreover that oracle is forced to continue it's development only until 2015. who knows what happens next.
Patches welcome
I worked on a patch to the frontend, hosting, a year ago and it worked well. However since provision still had a pretty much mysql-centric framework it was not a fictional patch. You can find more info on the respective issue queues for hosting and provision.
The company I'm working for isn't going to use aegis so this fell off my radar.
I should probably take a look one of these days to see what could be done several alpha versions and a year later.
Edit: cool posted this from my iPhone ;-) feel so hip and 21st century.
Cool: with this committed it
Cool: with this committed it shoild make things much easier amazing what happbs in a year http://drupal.org/node/269520
Here is the hosting issue: http://drupal.org/node/548882
And the backend issue: http://drupal.org/node/585796
mariadb
According to aegir-0.4-alpha11's installation notes there's just mysql support for now. However, My's father has created a drop in opensource alternative for MySQL called MariaDB, after his 2nd daughter. Omega8cc maintains a somewhat briliant high performance branch of aegir that includes Nginx and MariaDB. If you are interested, check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/84074.
mariadb even though is a
mariadb even though is a really promising and imho exciting project, it is still in its young stages. postgresql on the other hand is already mature and fully functional to be used for any kind of business.
aegir is in alpha stage, mariadb is in beta stage, i believe it's quite risky to use both of those 'not so stable' projects together.
MariaDB 5.1.49 is not in beta stages
MariaDB 5.1.49 is not a beta, its stable release which comes with http://groups.drupal.org/node/84074.
Cool
Then that changes everything! I'm about to start boycotting every product/project I can that is being released by Oracle so I guess MariaDB will be the first step :).