[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Martin Burns]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, .jeff wrote:

> i'm going to keep saying this until people start listening:
>
> IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS MOVING THE DATA TO A DIFFERENT DATABASE AND CHANGING
> THE DATASOURCE!!!
>
> there is lots and lots of oracle specific code in teo/weo that will require
> some work to make compatible with another database.

Jeff

I don't think anyone doesn't understand that, and that it would be true
whether we moved to mssql, mysql or postgres.

I'm guessing that you're the only one who could do that?

How much work (in time terms) is involved?

Cheers
Martin>

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