[Project_owners] [Fwd: Splitting up Bugzilla on MozDev?]
Philip Chee
philip.chee at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 02:48:51 EST 2005
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:05:10 +0100, Wladimir Palant wrote:
> Philip Chee wrote:
>> This may be my oracle background showing up, but using views and some clever
>> SQL is a much better approach that what you are suggesting. Of course
>> somebody may just tell me that MySQL doesn't have views.
> Ok, I tell you this: MySQL doesn't have views :)
Aaaack! I was actually joking here!
> Your points would be very valid if we were to develop a new system here.
> But we don't, we have Bugzilla already. To implement even the simplest
> of your suggestions you would have to change lots of code. And you would
> have to do it all over again every time you install an upgrade. Your
Not if we submit these patches to mozilla.org and get them accepted :-)
> Btw. using symlinks to access the same table from different databases is
> an official and supported feature of MySQL 4.0. MySQL is aware of the
> fact that is has the same table under different names and treats it
> accordingly
> (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/symbolic-links-to-tables.html).
Gee, wotahack. Any chance of migrating Bugzilla to postgres?
Phil
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