Re: Nessus and postgresql backend, any activity?

Tom Skoglund wrote:

>>What specific issues are you having?
> 
> 
> I don't remember what the errors were right now. It was something in the
> postgres specific files, probably something minor. We will be deciding
> next week if we are doing this, and it will be for postgresql if we do
> it. At the moment I don't know if we will use what's in the NESSUS_SQL
> branch, or if we'll just use HEAD and take it from there. Anyway, we'll
> get back to it on this list with questions, patches etc.

PostgreSQL code will not work, as it has not been revamped to take 
into account the new schemas and is not that much tested. It should be 
easy to derive the code based on the current MySQL code, though and 
gradually introduce some of the advantages of a PostgreSQL DB.

Notice that the NESSUS_SQL branch could be easily folded back into 
Nessus HEAD. Changes to nessus files are few (mostly changes to 
configuration and Makefiles to get it to compile all the possible 
backends as well as hooks in nessusd.c to call the database code). All 
of the database code is in separate files and should be easy to merge 
it into HEAD.

I would suggest you reuse both the E/R schema (available in the 
documentation) as well as some of the scripts (available in 
nessus-tools, also NESSUS_SQL branch) for your development :-)

Regards

Javier
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