[Mediawiki-l] Oracle database question

Tue Jan 18 23:25:30 UTC 2005

On Jan 18, 2005, at 6:24 AM, stefan at agentfarms.net wrote:
> We have started to use (pilot) the Media Wiki at our company (>1500 
> emp.). It is
> not convenient for us to run another kind of DB system, such as MySQL 
> as we
> have standardised ways of storing,managing and backing up our data. 
> Are there
> any implementations with or plans for an Oracle database backend for 
> the media
> wiki?

No, there's very little interest in supporting hyperexpensive 
proprietary databases. You could try porting it (based on the 
PostgreSQL support) but I doubt this would be easier than running one 
mysqld.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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