Re: Wordpress & PostgreSQL ...

[Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>]

jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know of any work being done to get wordpress ported to PostgreSQL? 
>> My search on the web finds emails from March of this year concerning some ppl 
>> more or less "looking into it", but I can't find anything that indicates 
>> they've done much more then talk :(
>
> There was an experimental patch at one time. However the devs don't
> really have much interest in PostgreSQL AFAICT.

And it seems to me that you could get a *wildly* better blog design by
making an expressly PostgreSQL-oriented design.

Consider:
a) Mapping things like Wiki-style special indicators of formatting
(e.g. - where indentation / * means something) onto some "final form"
using stored procs written in pl/[text-munging-language]

b) Managing the various sorts of objects (users, entries, links to
local entries, links to outside entries) using a stored function API
so that what's visible in the outside language (Perl CGI or whatever)
becomes fairly trivial

c) Allowing the use of intelligent data types.  Self-compressing
TOAST, strongly typed URLs, strongly typed and validated email
addresses, all of that sort of thing.
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