From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E2C13877A for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 034B2E0C84; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com (mail-we0-f172.google.com [74.125.82.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A44F6E0C33 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id x48so9958961wes.17 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mF+/zXzq8vi0QipkCkhUfeYsm9dq655wJ0MX7Vcu2a8=; b=NVO/XAHa5IG2EaJpLYjIP5KRdJkrUQ7ddUSxUUl7KEu9EM8reFL6tb4hzlNp29MlGE uNTfYHN13m5EiKd9LAPj1IQmG/6UlBXddK98X77AXuXHzOg54Ab3ZDRNNZ/GEVscI+Yk ebMleLsV/Ygzmmovv+y+mpatcWXJX6/x5Hy1XJthSP4epSLASwb4BGBeI4jHlobki0HV UndpGMab/5FOs9DbNacIYFT84ailqQoZ+KOs4W/oyIfYQEpT95GWRdS8hNBs9EX8srvl zb/1eQG0fwbI6V111f01bOJ2ato6JWjY93J9LUP9WZm7j8N7l8WFgndUNbizk9yLqm+f vpoQ== X-Received: by 10.194.89.36 with SMTP id bl4mr5110963wjb.126.1407850749121; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.40] ([41.85.145.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q5sm56384946wiw.5.2014.08.12.06.39.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53EA18C7.6080800@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:38:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it? References: <201408092100.58965.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1573911.bTZgDrGOdb@andromeda> <53E9B766.7040607@gmail.com> <201408121010.14344.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <53EA032F.7030808@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 724987e7-818b-4640-8f66-9f65e24f75b8 X-Archives-Hash: 3fb06cef1bfff08087c1ad449dc0bb7a On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote: >>> I recall the devs explicitly stating early enough in the KDE4 >> development that >>> sqlite is not man enough for the job and advising everyone to move >> over to >>> mysql. >>> >>> Someone was looking at postgresql as an alternative to mysql, but I'm >> not sure >>> that this would bring any benefit. >> >> >> pg is a fine database, but for this use will always be a 2nd class >> citizen. Most users will already have mysql installed, or will be >> willing to install it. >> >> The number of folks with pg and without mysql will probably be small > > Not necessarily. > People who care about databases actually supporting SQL properly and performing properly will prefer PostgreSQL. > > I don't like to be forced to run a MySQL instance as well. It's often the laziness of developers that causes the difficulty of supporting a different database when they started with MySQL. > If you start with a different one, like PostgrSQL, supporting different database engines is very simple. I don't think you read what I said. I didn't say postgresql shouldn't be supported, I said it would always end up being a second class citizen as the number of people who'd be happy with mysql will vastly outnumber the number of people who highly desire postgresql. So, logically, a postgresql driver in this case will probably just bitrot away. Whihc nicely explains the likely reason why that driver is not there. People like yourself who care about databases are very much in the minority of users, even on Linux. Most users across the boards just don't give a shit. Them's the breaks. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com