Posted by swami on February 27, 2008 at 9:19pm
Hello,
I am new to Drupal, and am using Mono/Postgres with my personal project. I'd like to integrate a CMS with it, and zeroed on to Drupal over MojoPortal, for its much higher range of features.
However, from my search, I find that Postgres support seems kind of step-motherly. As a newbie, I wanted your comments on whether I should still bite the bullet & go with Drupal 6, or should I wait for 7 till the support gets better.
Here are the Drupal features I need:
1. Books
2. Wiki
3. Blog
4. Forum
5. Rating system
6. Statistics
Thanks
Comments
From limited personal experience
I think you'll find that support for Postgres in core modules (which would include everything you listed except possibly the wiki and rating system, depending on how you implement them) will be fine all the way back to Drupal 5. Drupal 6 also seems to work fine with Postgres, empirically (and better, presumably), and I can't imagine any reason to wait for Drupal 7 unless you're very heavily dependent on third-party modules and don't have the ability to make the very minor tweaks that typically are needed to get them working with Postgres.
-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
Thanks
Thanks, that helps. The list of features I get is still far more than what I get with other CMS systems with Postgres. I'm going to bite the bullet. :)
Ratings
For what it's worth, the Fivestar module supports Postgres, if that's the kind of rating system you're looking for. For your wiki functionality, you might check out the wiki group or the PEAR wiki filter, which has practically no database dependency.
-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
Prefer Wiki with database
Thanks, the FiveStar module will suit me just fine.
I don't prefer Wiki without a database, because if we end up with multiple servers for load balancing, it becomes difficult to manage. Thanks, though.
To clarify, the wiki content
To clarify, the wiki content is stored in the database like any other Drupal content (nodes). It's just that the wiki syntax filter—which is what turns something like
==Foo==into an HTML<h2>Foo</h2>—doesn't (for the most part) have to interact with the database to do its job.-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
-- Steven N. Severinghaus <sns@severinghaus.org>
I dunno the "Rating System"
I dunno the "Rating System" -- but all the rest work in Drupal5 on postgresql.