Comments on: PG4WP 1.0.0

By: balrog-kun

balrog-kun — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:32:19 +0000

Hey,
I just installed wordpress for the first time and wanted to use PostgreSQL. I started with the latest wordpress 2.9.1 + your plugin which nearly worked fine but pgsql threw a bunch of syntax errors at me. Some related to the REGEXP keyword, some related to new primary key conflicts and some related to ON DUPLICATE KEY keyword. I modified your plugin to handle these cases (except the last one which I chose to ignore for simplicity) and it works like a charm, I’m blogging away. The patch against pg4wp 1.0.0 is at

http://www.openstreetmap.pl/balrog/wordpress-pg4wp-update-2.9.1.patch

By: rach

rach — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:37:11 +0000

Great stuff!

But, i need help…

i have downloaded a clean copy of wordcpress 2.8.6 and followed all the directions in the file readme PG4WP, but some reason the install.php just comes out as a blank page.

cheack: http://oqueeutenho.uol.com.br/2.0/

please help?

thanks…

By: Josh Pelz - ASUPS DTS

Josh Pelz - ASUPS DTS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:16:02 +0000

Hello Hawk__,

I am attempting to get your plugin working. I have downloaded a clean copy of WordPress 2.8 (released June 2009) and followed the directions in the readme file for PG4WP. I have created a database with the database user as owner and I have double-checked the database name, user name, and password information for my server. When I attempt to go through the installation process, I see a “Can’t select database” error generated by Wordpress. It says that it was able to connect so the username and password are fine, but that it cannot select the database. Any advice/ideas?

Again, I do not have any additional Wordpress plugins and this is a clean install attempt. I am running Apache, PostgreSQL 8.3 and PHP5. The server is a deployed web server with other content running on it just fine (including use of another PostgreSQL database). The Wordpress PostreSQL user is the owner of the database I am trying to use.

By: Hawk__

Hawk__ — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:59:20 +0000

I’m sorry but most database intensive plugins have poor chances to work correctly with PG4WP as it works by “translating” MySQL specific queries to more generalistic SQL ones.

Plugins using direct my calls will never be supported as long as they are not modified to use WP’s “wpdb” database object which PG4WP hooks into.

GD Star Rating seems to use many tables but may be supported some day if it uses the “wpdb” database object to work (I’ll put it in the list of plugins to watch for compatibility).
I don’t have much experience with WP’s plugins, and I don’t know any rating plugin.

Please excuse the delay for my answer.

By: Serge Fonville

Serge Fonville — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:36:34 +0000

I tried to install GD Star Rating http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/ and it generated a lot of errors
Do you have any experience with this plugin. Alternatively, do you know another rating plugin that is compatible with pg4wp

Thansk

By: Serge Fonville

Serge Fonville — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:55:19 +0000

Inside install.txt
DB_TYPE should be DB_DRIVER
and db.php in the directory listing should be prefixed just like the rest of the files in that directory

Apart from that WELL DONE!!!

By: Ed W

Ed W — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:55:07 +0000

Great stuff for working on this!

I did attempt to get PG4WP working on a fresh install and for some reason the install.php just comes out as a blank page.
(The same install works ok with MySQL)

It’d be great if I can get this working though as it’s not ideal to have to have MySQL and PostgreSQL both running on my server!