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On 01/20/2011 11:25 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
> --On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:27:37 PM -0500 Dan Langille
> <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/17/2011 4:27 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
>>>
>>> Eh? Have I missed some important point about using MySQL for Bacula's
>>> catalog, or is this just the author's prejudices speaking?
>>
>> As the author of the above, and of the PostgreSQL module for Bacula, I
>> admit that I am completely and utterly biased.
>
> I should say that when I wrote that, there was no offense intended;
> it was strictly meant as a technical question as the statement was
> made without justification. I realized after posting it that the
> emotional index of "prejudice" is probably a bit high. "Bias" is a
> much nicer word, but didn't come to mind at the time :)
>
>> It is clearly a religious issue.
>
> Ok; I thought it might be, although I read others' responses with
> interest as well.
>
> I would, however, recommend that if there is indeed an advantage
> to Bacula of using one DB over another, that it might be worth
> mentioning in the installation manual. It sounds like they're close
> enough that the deciding factors would be legacy infrastructure and
> operators' experience, however those two being equal it would be
> good to know (especially for new users) any other relative advantages.
> Maybe this just means linking to the page Rory mentioned, or the
> comment (assuming that it's valid) that primary development is
> on Postgres. I'm not going to submit a documentation patch, though,
> because having used only one DB type for bacula I don't consider
> myself qualified to write a comparison.
>
> Of course, if there is no significant advantage, you can just ignore
> that whole last paragraph :)
>
> I do appreciate all the work that you (and others) have put into bacula,
> including the informative and timely answers on this list.
I use MySQL. It works fine, though I did need to add indexes. Of course,
my catalog is only about 400MB, but I've only ever used MySQL for
anything so it was not worth learning anything else.
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