[katello-devel] PostgreSQL support in Rails 4

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 15:32:03 UTC 2013


On 01/02/2013 10:01 AM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 07:07 AM, David Davis wrote:
>> One of the features I'm looking forward to the most in Rails 4 is
>> support for a wide variety of PostgreSQL column types like hstore
>> (key/value pairs), arrays, network addresses, and uuids. In case you
>> aren't familiar with this, here's an article about it from the
>> countdown Vit sent out earlier:
>>
>> http://blog.remarkablelabs.com/2012/12/a-love-affair-with-postgresql-rails-4-countdown-to-2013
>>
>>
>> David
>>
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> We may want to discuss if we want to really limit ourselves to
> postgres.  I know there was some previous discussion of supporting
> oracle installations (on customer's oracle instances) sometime in the
> future, so we need to keep that requirement in mind assuming it still
> exists.   We don't test on these other databases and I'm sure we
> probably have some issue preventing it from working 100%, but we don't
> want to intentionally paint ourselves into a corner.
>

IMHO.. it would be good to limit ourselves to things which will work on 
Postgres, Oracle, MySQL.

-- bk





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