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217.123.200.224 (talkcontribs)

Hello, I would like to setup MediaWiki with an Oracle database. As I understand the latest MediaWiki versions is unsupported due to open blocking bugs. My question is, will this problem be addressed at short notice, and would it be possible to migrate MediaWiki from MariaDB to an Oracle database, when it is supported?

Thanks,

-Rene

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

I'd not recommend that: Oracle has been unsupported for long, there's no active maintainer for this database engine. If it's made compatible again, it can very well be unmaintained again in next versions, so you won't be able to upgrade.

Also, migrating from MariaDB to Oracle is not done by just exporting and importing databases, there's some structure differences AFAIK.

87.123.36.240 (talkcontribs)

That is right. In the past MediaWiki basically always was not compatible with Oracle. There have always only been certain points in time, when it worked, bu these were more single spots than periods of time. There also are no fixed plans as to which future version of MediaWiki should be working properly with Oracle.

I would not recommend to use Oracle for MediaWiki.

217.123.200.224 (talkcontribs)

Thank you. I will use the MariaDB database.