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<br>Agreed. We will support Postgres but we need help.
<br>Here, we are working on the bug-fixes and are totally
<br>swamped.
<br>All hands welcome for Postgres support.
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Richie wrote:<br>> I would like to know your views on supporting Postgres in vtiger CRM 5<br>> GA please.<br><br>I think there is consensus that postgresql support is important and that<br>someone would step up to provide it. Alternatives to mysql for different<br>reasons to different people: licensing, stability, management utilities,<br>integration with other apps already in other backends, etc.<br><br>But I'll suggest one reason that makes it an imperative to merge<br>postgresql support, as in right now, before tagging vtigercrm-5.0.0beta1:<br><br> There is likely to be no reliable support for an end-user to migrate to<br> another database backend once you start using vtigercrm in production.<br><br>Consider: is anyone preparing adodb migration code, or suggesting we rely<br>on mysql<->postgresql dumpfile translators, for something as complex as a<br>vtigercrm dataset that's been used in production on Mysql for several<br>months. How many relational tables is vtigercrm now?<br><br>Even if it can be coaxed from one dumpfile format to another, we don't<br>have automated testing to tell for certain if the data integrity is<br>preserved. One could conceivably go quite a while before noticing anything<br>wrong with a converted dataset.<br><br>I think that a sensible user will choose the database backend they prefer<br>at the beginning of a deployment, and stick with it. Therefore, vtigercrm<br>needs to support more backends sooner rather than later.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This vtiger.com email is sponsored by Zoho Planner. Still scribbling down your To-Do's on bits of paper & palms of your hands? Try the AJAX enabled, personal organizer online, Zoho Planner for FREE instead! <a href="http://zohoplanner.com/?vt">http://zohoplanner.com/?vt</a> <br>
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