mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

[Kevin Kofler]

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Then switch to using PostgreSQL as the database backend.
> It's secure by default (e.g. only allows localhost connections) and
> has better concurrency than MySQL. It's also Tom Lane's territory
> and I like it better too. :-)

PostgreSQL requires manual intervention at each upgrade (dump BEFORE you 
upgrade, restore afterwards) and is not automatically integrated into 
Akonadi the way MySQL is (you have to set up a server manually and configure 
Akonadi for it). And Akonadi automatically configures its MySQL instances to 
only allow local connections from the specific user. (It sets it up to only 
listen on a Unix socket with permissions only for the user owning the 
instance.)

        Kevin Kofler