Which Database Versions are you testing?

Which Database Versions are you testing?

by BUG HUNTER -
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Hi,

from this thread http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=186777 I got the impression that I am the first person to test moodle with PostgreSQL 9.1 - what seems to be a little crazy from my experience ;) 

So I would like to ask: which database versions are you testing with? Are you testing moodle with the current beta or even "trunk" or "master" versions of databases (if available) or are you using only beta versions for testing - or only the actual stable releases? I was expecting Moodle developers testing at least the current beta versions of databases to be ahead of problems that might arise from upcoming database updates.

Thank you very much for your attention,
Bughunter

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Re: Which Database Versions are you testing?

by Mauno Korpelainen -

I am not a developer but I have a feeling that your impression might not be correct - if you mean http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=186762

I suppose that " developers " as a large group (not just Tim) are testing mostly the latest available stable versions of MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server and even Oracle (supported databases) - but also the latest development versions if they have time and a good reason to test new alpha or beta versions - and the old releases if necessary. wink

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Re: Which Database Versions are you testing?

by BUG HUNTER -

Hi Mauno,

thaks for your answer, hopefully your assumptions may be right - I could not find any documentation about a formalized testing environment or any database testing results, can you point me to any existing documentation about this? I am having still some problems with the search results from the wiki and could not find any hint on this issue.

Thanks for your attention!
Bughunter

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Re: Which Database Versions are you testing?

by Mauno Korpelainen -

You may be searching such things that are not reported in these forums - http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_documentation is a good place to start getting familiar with development of moodle ...

Developers of moodle as well as the whole community here is mainly focused in testing code of moodle itself and the latest releases of moodle in various environments, not so much the latest versions of databases or the latest versions of php as such. The same way if you find some tinymce bug you usually first report it to moxiecode (tinymce bug tracker) and try to get it fixed in core tinymce - and if that is not possible try to get a fix / work around to core moodle code.

I suppose the answer that Tim gave just meant that he thought there might not be any obvious reason why postgresql 9.1 would not work as well as postgresql 9.0 does with moodle 2.1... wink

 

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