From: Tim Brody <tdb2 AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:19:31 +0000
| Threading: | ↑ [EP-tech] DB support in EPrints 3.2 from mark.gregson AT qut.edu.au • This Message |
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:20 +1000, Mark Gregson wrote: > Thanks Tim. > > I assume from this that there are no known differences in the support > (I'm thinking of EPrints straight out of the box) compared to MySQL > and the only EPrints related reasons (ie, excluding issues about QUT > expertise and other organisational-related things) I would want to go > with Oracle or PostgreSQL is they have had less testing and that any > additional development we do might be constrained by the annoyances > listed on the wiki. Does that sound about right? The epadmin tool is still MySQL-centric i.e. you have to do some configuration by hand to talk to Oracle or PostgreSQL. To do anything with Oracle requires some hackery of environment variables. The principle is EPrints should work as well with any of the three supported DBs. The search code is completely new in 3.2 so is subject to teething troubles regardless of DB backend (in most cases cachemap tables are no longer used). Cheers, Tim. *** Options: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech *** Archive: http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/ *** EPrints community wiki: http://wiki.eprints.org/