Re: Drupal wants a PostgreSQL maintainer

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Drupal wants a PostgreSQL maintainer
Date: 2007-09-04 23:57:11
Message-ID: 46DDF0D7.7010703@commandprompt.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> Apparently some developers of Drupal are advocating for going MySQL-only
> because they haven't had a reliable PostgreSQL mainainer in some time:
> http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/64
>
> Surely there's someone in our community who uses Drupal and could give them
> a hand?

I find this odd as Drupal 6 (to my knowledge) has a completely new db
access layer that should make postgresql support zero effort.

>
> This seems to be part of a disturbing trend in which the size of the
> PostgreSQL+PHP community is shrinking and not growing. We also need PHP
> driver maintainers and other projects.

Well to be fair, most of the Drupal people out there that I have met are
pro MyISAM ;)

Joshua D. Drake

>

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