I'd always recommend MySQL or a highly compatible variant such as MariaDB - Postgres is great, but Wikimedia runs MariaDB so I do too.
- d. On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 18:18, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Try installing MariaDB instead of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement and > > the version available in CentOS 7 is recent enough to run modern MediaWiki > > once you enable the MariaDB yum repo. > > Let me ask this... CentOS provides Postgres 9.2, which meets minimum > requirements: > > Available Packages > Name : postgresql-server > Arch : x86_64 > Version : 9.2.24 > Release : 1.el7_5 > > The question is, has anyone had success with a Wiki MySQL to Postgres > conversion like at > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreSQL > ? > > I personally like Postgres but I am not a hard core database or web > guy. I have not hit the painpoints real database and web guys know. > > Postgres also makes fewer appearances on Bugtraq than MySQL. > > Jeff > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
