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Why MySQL?

April 26, 2017MySQL

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Why MySQL?

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‘m interested in seeing Bugzilla run on PostgreSQL/Sybase/Oracle/Msql/MSSQL. MySQL was originally chosen because it is free, easy to install, and was available for the hardware Netscape intended to run it on. Bugzilla 2.20 contains experimental support for PostgreSQL. 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. 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. 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 informa