A while ago, I joined a bunch of groups at groups.drupal.org, thinking I’d pick up some interesting ideas, and meet some folks who were doing cool stuff with Drupal. One of the groups I joined (along with “Drupal for Good” and “Drupalchix”) was the PostgreSQL group.
Yesterday, in my RSS feed, this post showed up. It was the suggestion to remove PostgreSQL support from the Drupal core.
I was always aware that Drupal supported PostgreSQL, and I didn’t really have any plans to use it. And there are varied opinions as to it’s usefulness (which I beg to differ on.) But as a long time lover of PostgreSQL, I couldn’t let this drop. And, I’d been looking for a good solid project to get me going in Drupal, so it looks like I found it. So I’ve adopted it.
But, it turns out that with Drupal 7 (the development branch) it’s virtually impossible to install Drupal, and even though I did wrangle an install (all of the right tables seem to show up in the database), it doesn’t actually work, and I can’t yet figure out why. I don’t yet really grok the structure of Drupal, so it feels like sorting through spagetti right now.
There are several core modules with PostgreSQL problems in Drupal 6, so I might actually go back and work on those first, before I can think about tackling what’s wrong with install.php and PostgreSQL.
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