[pretix] Deprecation of MySQL/MariaDB support

[ben-biber]

Deprecation of MySQL/MariaDB support We hereby announce that future releases of pretix will support PostgreSQL as the only database for production setups. Use of MySQL and MariaDB will no longer be possible. This does not affect you if you use pretix Hosted.

We know this may be quite inconvenient to you if you are currently using pretix Community or pretix Enterprise with MySQL or MariaDB as your database. We have pondered this decision for multiple years now and believe it is the best way forward for pretix. Supporting just one database for production setup will make it much easier for us to design and develop for optimal performance and stability. It will also allow us to make use of some database-specific features of PostgreSQL to make pretix more powerful.

According to our current plans, the last release supporting MySQL and MariaDB will be released end of April, 2023. We have published a migration guide that shows you how to move your data from MySQL to PostgreSQL step by step.

If you are a pretix Enterprise customer and are affected by this, please feel free to contact us before you start with the migration. We are happy to help you in planning the migration.

Migration guide

SQLite will still be usable for test and evaluation purposes, but continues to receive no support for production-grade setups.

https://pretix.eu/about/de/blog/20230130-release-4160/

[smokephil]

Did the migration guide work for you?

[herzogmedia]

the migration guide uses pgloader, which (afaik) is not available on uberspace