This document describes the state of Postgres support in and is fairly well maintained The main code is very well while extensions are very hit and miss it is probably the most supported database after MySQL Much of the work in making MediaWiki database agnostic came about through the work of creating Postgres as and are nearing end of but without copying over all the usage comments General notes on the but these can almost always be programmed around *Although Postgres has a true BOOLEAN boolean columns are always mapped to as the code does not always treat the column as a and VARBINARY columns should simply be TEXT The only exception is when VARBINARY is used to store true binary data