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Submitted by: djw(at)reactor-core(dot)org
Headline: Scoop now works with Postgres
Summary:

After four years of being MySQL only, scoop, the famous mod_perl interactive community software that runs kuro5hin.org, works with Postgres.

Story:

Postgres is not officially supported by the scoop developers. To use it, you must checkout the cvs HEAD. You also need to do the install by hand; the automated scoop installer does not support Postgres. If you go to http://bugz.mostly-harmless.ca/show_bug.cgi?id=78 you can download my script for creating and populating the database and getting the grants done correctly. You also must download the correct database, with all MySQLisms fixed. Use it instead of the scoop.sql you get from cvs. You can get it from the same URL as my script.