Manual:IBM DB2

The purpose of this page is to collect information and experiences about running MediaWiki on IBM DB2.

MediaWiki might support IBM DB2 starting with 1.15 (scheduled for May 2009). Code for this is currently in the trunk.

There may be issues with maintenance scripts and some of the special pages, which tend to use hard-coded SQL instead of the MW database API.

SQL data types
The exceptions are el_to and el_index in the externallinks table and ipb_address, ipb_reason, ipb_range_start, and ipb_range_end in the ipblocks table. These are all VARCHAR(255) because they are used in indexes.