Re: Request Tracker ( RT ) recommends MySQL

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 01:12:45AM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
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>
>>jnasby@pervasive.com ("Jim C. Nasby") writes:
>>
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>>>>One of our people did some performance tuning work, and found a
>>>>number of queries that could be made *spectacularly* faster for
>>>>PostgreSQL if tweaked to be less MySQL(tm)-specific (I surmise that
>>>>the same changes would be either helpful or at least not hurtful
>>>>for Oracle, Informix, and Sybase, though I can't be sure about
>>>>SQLite).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Note that the best way to change this situation is for users of RT
>>>to request these changes. There's no real reason they can't support
>>>alternative query syntaxes for different databases, other than it's
>>>more work. If anything, they should make MySQL the exception case,
>>>and use normal SQL syntax for everyone else. But none of this will
>>>change unless people using the product (especially those sending
>>>them money) request it.
>>>
>>>
>>What you're proposing is not really to "make MySQL the exception
>>case," but rather to cease to support it as an option.
>>
>>It's only going to be convincing if the vendor can be convinced that
>>dropping support for their legacy of customers who are not unhappy
>>with MySQL(tm) is the preferred approach.  They have not been easy to
>>convince thus far.
>>
>>
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>There's no technical reason I can think of why a piece of software
>couldn't support different queries for different databases.
>
Nope, but I'd imagine that it's the maintenance overhead that they are
concerned about.

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