[wp-hackers] Shared Knowledge for Developers

[Omry Yadan]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>> If you have a question you'd like to never answer again, reply to 
>> this message with the question AND an answer, and I'll collate and 
>> edit them all into a coherent developer intro FAQ.
>
> Why does WordPress only support MySQL? What about DB abstraction?
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Another issue is that introducing support for other databases will break 
many many existing plugins that assumes MySQL.