On 23 December 2013 13:04, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, David Gerard wrote:
>> (Particularly given Debian's idiosyncratic >> default to the not-well-supported Postgres rather than the >> highly-supported MySQL/Maria). > Actually, Debian defaults to the not-even-a-real-ACID-database > MySQL instead of a proper database, by ordering of the package > dependencies. It’s just me who insists on keeping his systems¹ > free of MySQL and consorts, with advice from several DBAs. MySQL is defective in great depth, it's true. It pains me when I have to use MySQL for something because it's the supported platform and something usable and sane isn't. But MySQL is also the platform MediaWiki is developed against, and Postgres isn't, and this last fact is important. This question was originally about moving the package to 1.22.0. You do realise that MediaWiki 1.22.0 didn't work in Postgres, and no-one picked up on this because no-one tested it against Postgres, at all? Postgres is better in every way than MySQL. But MediaWiki is developed against MySQL, and if you point it at Postgres then stuff will break unpredictably for your users. Hence "idiosyncratic". - d. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
