[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 on PostgreSQL experiances

[Martin Kutschker]

ries van Twisk schrieb:
> 
> 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).

This can be amended if both are shipped as tar/zip archive. Then you can 
install it manually.

Masi