Greg,

    I manage to set my connection string so that we could use a remote mysql server. Thanks.

   w.r.t. the datasets purging, I used the scripts to clean deleted libraries, folders, datasets, userless history ... I've seen that one must speficy the span of time in days. What about the data that was added mistakenly for instance today and that we want to immediately delete it? I tried to launch the script with "-d 0" but the data is still there... Am I missing something?

   I am no longer using the sqlite DB created in our first trials. I guess I can safely delete (from the command line) all the files under the directory database?

   have the purge_*.sh scripts tested with mysql?

   last question (already asked before): are there any plans to support Oracle?

thanks,
Erick

2009/7/22 Greg Von Kuster <ghv2@psu.edu>
Erick,

To use a different database than the sqlite that come with the Galaxy distribution all that is needed is to change the config setting, prviding the URL that points to your mysql database.  See the mysql documentation for the connection URL, as the URL differs depending upon whether you database is installed locally or not.

The config setting is the "database_connection" setting, and could look something like this:

database_connection = mysql:///greg_test?unix_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Greg Von Kuster
Galaxy Development Team


Erick Antezana wrote:
Hello,

 I would like to use MySQL instead of sqlite to store my data. I coudn't find on the Galaxy web site a HOWTO or some guidelines to do it. I only found some lines that might need to be changed/enabled in the universe_wsgi.ini file:

#database_file = database/universe.sqlite
database_connection = mysql:///galaxy
#database_engine_option_echo = true
#database_engine_option_echo_pool = true
#database_engine_option_pool_size = 10
#database_engine_option_max_overflow = 20

Could you point out to some doc or briefly describe what I need to do in order to go for mysql?

Are there any plans to support other DBMS's (like Oracle for instance)?

thanks,
Erick
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