[elephant-devel] Is there any reason not to develop a Postgresqlb ack-end?

[Gábor Melis]

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 22:04, Robert L. Read wrote:
> I am considering extending Elephant to allow the use of Postgresql as
> well as Berkeley-db.
> This would make the use of Elephant easier to use for those users who
> are not developing an
> open-source solution and do not wish to pay for an Berkeley-db
> license.
>
> Can anyone think of a reason I shouldn't undertake this?  Is anybody
> already working on it
> (or on some other Relational back-end?)
>
> Perhaps I am naive, but I expect it to take about two weeks.

Nobody that I know is working on it.

There *may* be some difficulty due to transaction handling semantics 
(retries/aborts/nesting), but last I checked Postgresql had some pretty 
nifty versioning scheme that I cannot recall :-).

I would very much welcome such an effort, though.

Cheers,
Gábor Melis