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PostgreSQL Module
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Maintainer Contact
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Geoff Munn (Nickname: gmunn)
<geoff (at) silverstripe (dot) com>
Requirements
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- PostgreSQL 8.3.x or greater must be installed
- PostgreSQL <8.3.0 may work if T-Search is manually installed
- Known to work on OS X Leopard, Windows Server 2008 R2 and probably Linux
Documentation
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http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=postgres
Installation Instructions
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Move the 'postgres' folder to the root level of the project.
You'll need to create a database with the desired name manually.
Run dev/build and you should be set.
Usage Overview
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See the documentation link for examples of PostgreSQL-specific functionality.
Known issues:
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When you're setting this up for the first time, you will need to manually create the database 'SS_project' or whatever it's called.
I haven't implemented the automatic database creation logic yet.
All column and table names must be double-quoted. PostgreSQL automatically lower-cases columns, and your queries will fail if you don't.
Ts_vector columns are not automatically detected by the built-in search filters.
That means if you're doing a search through the CMS on a ModelAdmin object, it will use LIKE queries which are very slow.
If you're writing your own front-end search system, you can specify the columns to use for search purposes, and you get the full benefits of T-Search.
Most other modules probably don't work. There are many instances of MySQL-compatible backticks '`' littering existing modules,
and these need to be changed to double-quotes.
There may also be instances of MySQL-specific SQL queries which will need to be made database-agnostic where possible.
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