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[Ståle Kristoffersen <address@concealed>]

On 2008-03-28 at 07:59, address@concealed wrote:
> Glen Eustace wrote:
> >I tried to upgrade to 5.4 this morning, it failed miserably.
> >
> >It would appear that the chnages to the database schema are only 
> >actioned if one uses mysql, I am using Postgresql.
> Yes that's true, updating database structure is supported only for 
> mySQL. This is described in this document :
> http://www.sympa.org/manualtest/upgrading?s=upgrade#database_structure_update
>  
> . Why did you have to restore your previous configuration ? Sympa should 
> just refuse to start unless the database structure is updated.
> 
> We did not the job for Oracle, Sybase, Postgresql because it is not easy 
> for us to test it.  We would be very pleased to received some contrib 
> for it. Now updating process in a specific module "Upgrade.pm" . It 
> should be quite easy to do it.

Is it recommended to use sympa with mysql? We are a bit afraid to use
postgresql if things will break on update.
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Ståle Kristoffersen