Re: WebGUI vote on whether to drop PostgreSQL support

Guys,

> WebGUI is a great content management system written in Perl that
> supports MySQL and PostgreSQL. They are intending to drop PostgreSQL
> support. I and some others kicked up a fuss about this, so they have
> put it to the vote. If you are interested in WebGUI and would like to
> vote one way or the other <g>, please visit http://www.plainblack.com.

*shrug* Unfortunately, I think we're coming into this one too late to do any
good. All of the "MySQL-specific" features which they mention are available
in PostgreSQL, and some of them work better on Postgres than MySQL. I
believe that the WebGUI developers know this and are simply looking for
excuses. (and, I might add, I've never heard of WebGUI before despite doing
a prolonged internet search for CMSes for Techdocs)

For that matter, if their concern was really using database-specific
functionality, then it would be quite feasable in Perl to write your own DBI
wrapper which would re-interpret commands depending on the database being
accessed, for example writing a paginate() method for the first issue they
mention. The fact that the WebGUI developers have not done this already
really makes me question the quality of their project's code.

Jeremy, as it seems that you are already a WebGUI user, I'd suggest that you
are welcome to tilt at this particular windmill; but keep in mind that if the
core developers have a cozy relationship with MySQL AB, then technical
considerations are not the real argument.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco