[Phpwiki-talk] Why not make MySQL the dafault database for phpwiki ?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Amilcar do Carmo Lucas schrieb:

> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:14, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>we don't care for the dba handler, every will work. we don't care about
>>the handler at all. the php-dba module just has to work as advertised.
>>just cdb is not a good solution, if you care to read the cdb docs. :)
>>
>>berkeleydb4 (db4) is of course supported. There might be php issues with
>>that though. see old bugreports on that. but php-gdbm has also problems,
>>even worse than db4.
> 
> Why not make MySQL the dafault database for phpwiki ?

1. because it's it technically worse than dba

2. is much harder to install (database setup, permissions, ...).

3. for some time php folks decided to turn off default mysql
support in php core. (this debate is over now I hope, but who knows).

4. Jeff and Steve also want to keep dba the default (I asked the same 
question some years ago)

ad 1: mysql locks all tables in the whole database to be able
to update a single row in a single table.

gdbm introduced file locking with php-4.3, which caused pain because of 
a bad php interface.
dba versions on earlier php's don't support (or just don't work) with 
multiple connections, which caught us with USE_DB_SESSION with dba.
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Reini Urban
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