[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 on PostgreSQL experiances

[ries van Twisk]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Martin Kutschker wrote:

> ries van Twisk schrieb:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I may be wrong but I think idea of DBAL was to enable using other
>>> databases with TYPO3. It means that queries must be converted to the
>>> format of corresponding database from MySQL syntax.
>>
>> I agree with that DBAL should handle this... although there is also a
>> little voice in my head that said 'vender transparent' :)
>> Like your suggestion below is that XML schema can solve it...  
>> something
>> for V5 I guess
>
> There is one caveat. Either the XDB format has options for common  
> features
> only or it has to have some vendor sepcific "hint sections".
>
> Otherwise the engine definitions for Mysql are lost.
>
> Anyway, for 5.0 I'd like to see neither .php nor .sql files for any
> coniguration task. Only XML or maybe a simple text format.
>
> Masi


What I actually forgot to mention was this:

I know there has been some discussion to remove ADOdb and DBAL from  
TYPO3 core.
However if you remove both of the extensions from core then there is  
no way to install
TYPO3 on a other DB then MySQL. This is because you need a running  
installation
to get these extensions and a running installation needs MySQL  
(chicken and the egg problem).

And I think I remember this was discussed on IRC to have both  
extensions in core because of the above problems.

Ries