Am 31.01.2013 15:39, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: > On 01/31/2013 02:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> And it's the same situation as with MariaDB and MySQL. Fedora is going to >> prefer MariaDB (FESCo stated it clearly yesterday) - so we should try to make >> an effort to support MariaDB and not for example force users to use both just >> to run system. But on the other hand - if there's someone (and both are from >> upstream), who's going to take a burden of maintainance - why not? It can >> fail, they will loose interest one day - yes, could happen. And there's >> possibility that these projects even coming from same roots will diverge and >> become totally different projects... > > "Fedora is going to prefer MariaDB (FESCo stated it clearly yesterday)" > > It did now? If that's the case then I would like a full fledge statement from FESCO saying so and a discussion what > is supposed to be the distribution "default" database and promote postgresql as an candidate to take that part thus > leaving our users out of yet another sunacle fiasco... what is a "default database"? you have to install whatever a software requires! from the view of usability postgresql is crap for the ordinary user in a long term - i am working with MySQL since lobger than 10 years starting with 3.x and there was NEVER a need to dump/restore data due upgrades, not for minor and not for major-upgrades, the "mysql" db with the users and permissions is the one installed many years ago and the who db-folders are moved around Windows, MacOSX, Linux over the years and i am speaking here mostly from production servers as also development workstations have fun doing the same with postgresql and explain your users why things are broken after the next dist-upgrade
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