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On 02/01/2017 10:22 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>
> I personally continue to be of the opinion that without an explicit
> vocal and well-staffed champion, supporting postgres is more trouble
> than it is worth. The vast majority of OpenStack deployments are on
> MySQL - and what's more, the code is written with MySQL in mind.
> Postgres and MySQL have different trade offs, different things each are
> good at and different places in which each has weakness. By attempting
> to support Postgres AND MySQL, we prevent ourselves from focusing
> adequate attention on making sure that our support for one of them is
> top-notch and in keeping with best practices for that database.
>
> So let me state my opinion slightly differently. I think we should
> support one and only one RDBMS backend for OpenStack, and we should open
> ourselves up to use advanced techniques for that backend. I don't
> actually care whether that DB is MySQL or Postgres - but the corpus of
> existing deployments on MySQL and the existing gate jobs I think make
> the choice one way or the other simple.


well, let me blow your mind and agree, but noting that this means, *we 
drop SQLite also*.   IMO every openstack developer should have 
MySQL/MariaDB running on their machine and that is part of what runs if 
you expect to run database-related unit tests.   Targeting just one 
database is very handy but if you really want to use the features 
without roadblocks, you need to go all the way.






>
> I agree that ceilometer should not be providing Postgres testing for the
> rest of OpenStack.
>
> Monty
>
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