Red Hat Web Application Framework 6.1: WAF Installation Guide | ||
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As part of your deployment, you will need to choose a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). This will need to be installed and configured prior to installing the Red Hat Applications components.
It is beyond the scope of this guide to make recommendations about a particular RDBMS over any other. However, if you haven't made any decisions regarding this yet, some of this information may help your process.
There are two supported databases:
Oracle8i or Oracle9i Database, Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition.
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The interMedia search capability in the Standard Edition of Oracle Database is not supported. Out of the box, it is not possible to do online rebuilding of search indexes. Using interMedia requires hand editing of the data model before installation, which is not a trivial task. For more information about accomplishing this, refer to the Red Hat Web Application Framework Developer Guide. An alternative to using Enterprise Edition and interMedia is to use the Jakarta project's Lucene search engine (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/). |
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Although you can install WAF with the Oracle Thin driver, it has had a known issue of not being able to handle LOBs of greater than 32KB in size. You will want to update to the latest Thin driver for Oracle9i Database which should fix this problem. Oracle8i Database users may not be able to use the Thin driver. |
PostgreSQL 7.3.x, available online at http://www.postgresql.org.
If you are registered with Red Hat Network, then you may be able to install the latest PostgreSQL directly:
up2date rh-postgresql |
WAF 6.1 requires PostgreSQL 7.3.x. This is a change from WAF versions 5.2 and earlier, which required PostgreSQL 7.2.x. See the Web Application Framework 6.1 release notes for this and other upgrade information.