Pulse on PostgreSQL
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By default, my current toy (Pulse) stores its meta-data in an HSQLDB database. Which is fine (it's a darn good database) but I already have plenty of infrastructure around periodically dumping all PostgreSQL databases on my system for backups. Wouldn't it be nice if Pulse ran on PostgreSQL.
Thankfully, the fellas at Zutubi (purveyors of the afore-mentioned toy) have written up a quick HOWTO on migrating to PostgreSQL and it worked like a charm.
About the only downside is that each time I upgrade, I need to remember to add the postgres.jar to the lib directory. Hmmm. Perhaps I need to add it to the classpath before starting the server...?
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Have you tried bamboo? How does it compare?
I just downloaded and installed pulse and i have to say that the out of the box experience has been a bit rubbish, I can't even create a project!
Posted by: damian | March 1, 2007 12:51 AM
Hi Simon,
The repeated copying of the driver file is annoying, agreed. We will be remedying this in Pulse 2.0, as we like to keep the upgrade process as slick as possible.
Damian: I'm sorry to hear that you are having trouble creating a project. If you drop me an email I'm sure I can help you over this hurdle.
Posted by: Jason Sankey | March 1, 2007 01:25 AM
It would help if I provided the email address :) :
support@zutubi.com
Posted by: Jason Sankey | March 1, 2007 01:27 AM
Damo, let me know what happened/where the pain was. Pulse worked first up out of the box for me on both FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
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March 1, 2007 05:02 AM
As an point of interest, Pulse uses Hibernate so I'd be willing to bet it'll run against Oracle or any other Hibernate supported DBMS.
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March 1, 2007 05:03 AM