thimbronion: billymg: ok. postgres it is then.
billymg: thimbronion: what are you making?
thimbronion: billymg: I'm going to try to move Alethepedia to my server here.
thimbronion: Or at least create a mirror.
billymg: thimbronion: ah, i see. i wasn't sure because i knew alethepedia ran on mp-wp. i can only hope this means you want to dive in a write a patch to switch mp-wp's backing db to postgres
billymg: but i'm also not completely delusional, so... i don't expect that's anything you (or anyone) actually wants to do
thimbronion: billymg: Looks like there's a plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress/
thimbronion: If that works I could create a vpatch that includes the plugin.
billymg: based on the description, "rewriting SQL queries on the fly when needed", and the limits of plugins, i'm guessing this thing leaves all the MySQL garbage in wordpress and just translates as queries happen
billymg: so as far as including in the mp-wp trunk i wouldn't want to go that route, but... they might have useful code to study in the places where they actually do the query translation
thimbronion: Hrm yeah just read it myself
billymg: but it could very likely work as a stopgap, if it ends up being compatible with mp-wp (might have to dig through their old releases, their latest says it requires 2.9.2 or higher and mp-wp is forked off 2.7 iirc)
thimbronion: Looks like there aren't that many distinct functions with 'mysql' in the name.
billymg: thimbronion: good to know, the eventual switch might not be so bad then
shinohai: I have question as to why comment system is needed in an encyclopedia.
thimbronion: shinohai: I can think of ways in which they might be useful. I don't know if they're absolutely necessary.
shinohai: Perhaps just a personal opinion, but a SNR thing. If I'm reading an entry, I don't want to see comments from everyone that "has opinion" on the $SUBJ
shinohai: Let 'em come to chat an complain or stfu
thimbronion: Yeah likely would end up with a lot of spam too
thimbronion: meanwhile I was able to build mysql from generic source. Now just a matter of finagling the config.