New PostgreSQL compatible web DMS/CMS

Posted on 2005-10-22

Posted by shawn.rapp@gmail.com

Web Wrench (located at

http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?webwrench) is a

content manager/document manager designed with small to large

businesses in mind. When I first started writing the software I

kept in mind the need for more industrial strength SQL servers.

Well after 2 years I've finally added PostgreSQL to the mix

with a wrapper type system. The exciting news about this is as

long as a module/add-in developer utilizes the wrapper their

software will work as exactly as intended on PostgreSQL even if

they wrote their software using MySQL. The wrapper is not

pathetically light weight, as it supports a large variety of

field types including blob's. And i'm optimizing as I

familarize myself more with PostgreSQL and how to tweak power

out of it.

I'm currently testing with Apache 2, PHP 4 & 5, and

PostgreSQL 8.0.

I'm very happy with the results of PostgreSQL as a database

server for Wrench (wish my web host had a PostgreSQL

server.)

I'm also going to remain committed to keeping Web Wrench

PostgreSQL compatiable as its now my favored server to develope

with.