If I wanted to run Mysql I'd be running Wordpress. Serendipity's ability to use Postgres as a back end is the reason I moved to it.

Perhaps that was a mistake....

I totally disagree on the performance aspect.

I have a forum system that maintains all data in Postgresql tables. It thumbnails images and stores both the thumbnail and base image in the table, and uses Apache's capability to run an on-disk cache along with internal knowledge to generate EUIDs as ...

I'll take a look at it - thanks for the pointer to how it works...

The GIF displays fine.

More problematic however is that over time externally-linked images may become unavailable. A second blog that I have has a couple of broken links in it and that also blows up this output filter, rendering it effectively useless.

That's most unfortunate as it means that ...

Attempting to enable it with "HTML2PDF support" returns the following error:

FPDF error: GIF parser: unable to open file http://tickerforum.org/smilies-local/nuke.gif

The URL in question is valid and does display.

With that switch off, the blog exports but formatting is destroyed and included ...

Has there been any thought given to putting these into a DBMS table?

Here's why - with that you can replicate and load balance VERY easily using something like Slony (for Postgres) or other tools on other platforms.

This gives you survivability as well as redundancy.

I can replicate the tables ...

Got it - "genesis.denninger.net port=55432" worked.

Nope; in serendipity_config_local.inc.php I have:

$serendipity['dbHost'] = 'genesis.denninger.net:55432';

and what I get back is:

Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not translate host name "genesis.denninger.net:55432" to address: hostname ...

I have a desire to use an aggregator for Postgres called "pgpool"; this requires that I change the connection port for Seredipity from its standard.

The change is transparent to the application other than the need for a custom port number.

I don't see a port field in the configuration area ...

Very odd that I HAD TO have that in the event list before (prior to 1.4.1) to avoid having no breaks between paragraphs tho.

Heh, it is what it is; its fixed and that's the important part

Nevermind - I found it.

Nl2br was enabled. Now why this DID NOT cause problems with 1.3 I don't know, but it does with 1.4.1.

I removed it from the active event list and the problem is gone.

Eh, this happens when you post using the non-WYSIWIG editor too.

Turn off the HTMLAREA, key in some text with a <P> between lines, and if you hit return, you wind up with a hard break in there too.

That's kind of a problem......

I figured out what's happening with the WYSIWIG editor (the HTMLAREA thing)

Its doing this to the text:


<div class="serendipity_entry_body">
<p>What's going on with this?</p><br />
<p>Time to test it out.</p>
</div>

Notice the extra "<br />" tag. That's from the carriage return - and I ...

Not sure what happened, but it appears that the "paragraph" tag in the HTML editor gets duplicated somewhere - I get double newlines now in all my new postings.

All the EXISTING material in the blog is ok.

Is there a parameter somewhere that got scrambled and I missed?

I guess its a preference issue..... I used to run it with "Days" as my default on Blogger and people got used to it....