Bug 453457

Summary: Postgres (or other FOSS) database support
Product: [Community] Spacewalk Reporter: Michael DeHaan <mdehaan>
Component: ServerAssignee: Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) <jpazdziora>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 0.1CC: bkearney, cperry, jpazdziora
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Description Michael DeHaan 2008-06-30 18:49:09 UTC 
While Spacewalk is now open and Free, it is still uses a proprietary (and worse,
expensive to use in production) database.  

Providing support for something like Postgres will open it up to more users and
in turn, will enlarge the spacewalk user & developer community by a large
extent.   This is a bugzilla RFE to get this done and track status of getting it
there.
Comment 1 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2009-01-17 01:48:02 UTC 
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PostgreSqlProject

In progress.
Comment 3 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-11-19 16:05:13 UTC 
Mass-moving to space13.
Comment 4 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-11-26 14:08:20 UTC 
With Spacewalk 1.2 released, limited support for PostgreSQL was announced:

http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes12