[wp-hackers] Making WordPress database independent

[Piyush Mishra]

Nacin,
Great! but arent the sql queries present all over the files?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Baki Goxhaj <banago at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great!
>
> Kindly,
>
> Baki Goxhaj
> www.wplancer.com | www.banago.info | proverbhunter.com
>
>
> On 7 February 2011 14:58, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Piyush Mishra <me at piyushmishra.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any reason for wordpress to be completely dependent on MySQL?
> If
> > > not, why dont we work on making it dbms independent ?
> > >
> >
> > WordPress allows for its database abstraction layer (the wpdb class) to
> be
> > extended or replaced.
> >
> > Sometimes this is used to add a caching layer, or provide support for
> > multiple databases and even datacenters (see HyperDB). In other cases it
> > can
> > be used to replace the database engine entirely. There's a plugin
> offering
> > PostgresSQL support, as well as a few other engines I believe. There's
> also
> > a patch (by Microsoft) offering SQL Server support, but this could just
> as
> > easily be implemented as a plugin (and we're working with them to make it
> > one).
> >
> > Nacin
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