I'm trying to use the newly open-source reddit for a forum on my site. Reddit uses PostgreSQL, but I use site5 for hosting and they don't have support for PostgreSQL. Will MySQL databases work in place of PostgreSQL? If not, are there any options I have besides switching to a different host? I tried asking this question on the google group for reddit developers, but there is hardly any activity there.
odds are, if you don't have the flexibility to use/install postgres, you won't be able to deploy the reddit code anyway. you've got to install and make use of a lot of different things you don't get to touch on standard shared hosting<p>admittedly, i've not looked enough into the db structure, but based on the playing i've done with the code, no. you're stuck on postgres.<p><a href="http://slicehost.com" rel="nofollow">http://slicehost.com</a>