[mythtv] More ideas on PostgreSQL support, comments welcome

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Wed Sep 1 10:59:13 EDT 2004


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:20:25PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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>>On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:30:57PM -0700, Mike Benoit wrote:
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>>>Obviously MythTV is your baby, and I respect your opinions and
>>>decisions, but just tell us upfront that your not interested so people
>>>don't waste their time (and yours) trying to come up with solutions. 
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>>Maybe you (or anyone) could post some reasons why support for Postgres
>>would be useful, and why MySQL isn't sufficient? So far there seems to
>>have been plenty of people wanting it and/or offering to help, without
>>really explaining why.
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>Funny, *I* thought I had seen people make the point that a database
>engine which randomly corrupts it's tables being used as underpinning
>for an appliance wasn't, perhaps, the best idea.
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Funny, I've never had a table "randomly" corrupted.   I myself prefer 
Postgres over MySQL, but MySQL works just fine for Myth in my experience.


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