Re: [Mailman-Developers] MySQL Support? Do tell!
On 2003-07-03 at 18:02:33 [+0200], mailman-developers-request@python.org wrote:
Barry, you mentioned that Mailman can work with MySQL, just not "out of the box." Can you expound on this? Or can anyone else? I'm about to do a lot of R&D in this area and would like to tap into what other people know so far.
Are we talking about data synching here, or is there a way to get Mailman to use MySQL to store its list config and membership data *instead* of these #&%^@! pickle files?
If someone can paint me a picture I'd greatly appreciate it.
Mailman + MySQL = :-)
Barry's explanation is pretty good but I think the integration with an ACID RDBMS is a little trickier than with BerkeleyDB and I think MySQL would not be a good choice for this. We have recently done our own RDBMS integration for a client and there are lots of pitfalls along the way, as Barry has hinted.
Charlie
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:47, Charlie Clark wrote:
Barry's explanation is pretty good but I think the integration with an ACID RDBMS is a little trickier than with BerkeleyDB and I think MySQL would not be a good choice for this. We have recently done our own RDBMS integration for a client and there are lots of pitfalls along the way, as Barry has hinted.
Well, Berkeley's kind of acidic, right? :)
But yes, my goal for Mailman 3 is to remove as many of these pitfalls as we possibly can.
-Barry
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