PostgreSQL?

[hotmop]

What is the current or future possibility of running Alfresco with the PostgreSQL db?

[kevinr]

Alfresco supports most databases including the one you mention - through using the Hibernate object-relational mapping technology.

Derek replied on a previous thread with this info:

>You change the DAO by changing the Hibernate SQL dialect. With a BIG thanks to Hibernate, look for the following in application-context.xml:
Example Code:
<prop key="hibernate.dialect" >org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
And that is it. Check out the available hibernate dialects.

You should find your DB in the list of dialects and make the changes as above.

Cheers,

Kevin

[dan3]

Here are some notes on how I installed postgresql

unpack /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war file to a seperate directory

In
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/hibernate-context.xml
change: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
to:     org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect


In WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties
change from:
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.name=alfresco
db.url=jdbc:mysql:///${db.name}
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco

change to:
db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
db.url=jdbcostgresql://localhost/alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco

jar -cf alfresco.war *
cp alfresco.war /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps
rm -rf /opt/alfresco/webapps/alfresco



psql -U postgres -h localhost template1
>create database alfresco
>create user alfresco with password 'alfresco';
>grant all on database alfresco to alfresco
>\quit

restart alfresco. It worked for me.

By the way, anyone having trouble getting the newly created space Users as outlined in the tutorial to appear when creating a new user ?

[rbramley]

As a hint, the Hibernate dialect moved for release 1.0.0 into jboss/server/default/conf/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect‍‍‍

JBoss (preview) instructions can be found in this forum post: http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=424#188

[sam69]

Thanks for this procedure !

It's working for me with postgres, but I had some trouble with the postgres authentification. After some modification in the pg_hba.conf, I manage to make it work with those line :

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD# IPv4 local connections:host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust‍‍‍‍

in the file \PostgreSQL\8.1\data\pg_hba.conf