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→‎Why MySQL? I'm interested in seeing Bugzilla run on PostgreSQL/Sybase/Oracle/Msql/MSSQL

Shane H. W. Travis

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 and was available for the hardware Netscape intended to run it on.
-There is currently work in progress to make Bugzilla work on PostgreSQL;
+Bugzilla 2.20 contains experimental support for PostgreSQL.
-track the progress of this initiative in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304 bug 98304].
-Sybase support is no longer being worked on.
+Bugzilla 2.22 contains complete, stable support for PostgreSQL. As of this release, using PostgreSQL with Bugzilla should be as stable as using MySQL. If you experience any problems with PostgreSQL compatibility, they will be taken as seriously as if you were running MySQL.
-Even if it eventually happens,
-it's VERY unlikely to work without the end-user-company
-having to stick a few developers on making several manual changes.
-Sybase is just NOT very standards-compliant (despite all the hype),
-and it turned out that way too much had to be changed to make it work --
-like moving half of the application logic into stored procedures
-to get any kind of decent performance out of it.
-[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173130 Bug 173130] is the relevant bug.
 Red Hat once ran a version of Bugzilla that worked on Oracle,
 but that was long, long ago; that version (Bugzilla 2.8) is now obsolete,
-insecure, and totally unsupported.
+insecure, and totally unsupported. In August of 2005, Wim Coekaerts (Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle Corporation) wrote to Dave Miller confirming that Oracle intends to implement and support Bugzilla. Since then, no further information has been forthcoming. Track progress at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189947 Bug 189947].
-Red Hat's current Bugzilla (based on Bugzilla 2.17.1) uses PostgreSQL,
-and work is being done to merge those changes into the main distribution.
+Sybase support is no longer being worked on. Even if it eventually happens, it's VERY unlikely to work without the end-user-company having to stick a few developers on making several manual changes. Sybase is just NOT very standards-compliant (despite all the hype), and it turned out that way too much had to be changed to make it work -- like moving half of the application logic into stored procedures to get any kind of decent performance out of it.
-(See above.) At this time we know of no recent ports of Bugzilla to Oracle.
+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173130 Bug 173130] is the relevant bug.
-(In our honest opinion, Bugzilla doesn't need what Oracle offers.)
-[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237862 Bug 237862] is a good bug to read through if you'd like to see
+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237862 Bug 237862] is a good bug to read through if you'd like to see what progress is being made on general database compatibility.
-what progress is being made on general database compatibility.
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