Per wikitech-l discussion: it would be nice if the various DBMSs we support kept all of their docs in one place. So make a place and move two already existing READMEs there. Add some info to /docs/database.txt about this as well. Postgres, Oracle, Mssql need to add some info kthnx :)

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diff --git a/docs/database.txt b/docs/database.txt
index 9962a83b0a42..555347dccb42 100644
--- a/docs/database.txt
+++ b/docs/database.txt
@@ -171,3 +171,20 @@ queries, by using an appropriate condition in the WHERE clause of an
 UPDATE, or by using unique indexes in combination with INSERT IGNORE.
 Then use the affected row count to see if the query succeeded.
 
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    Supported DBMSs
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+MediaWiki is written primarily for use with MySQL. Queries are optimized
+for it and its schema is considered the canonical version. However,
+MediaWiki does support the following other DBMSs to varying degrees.
+
+* PostgreSQL
+* SQLite
+* Oracle
+* IBM DB2
+* MSSQL
+
+More information can be found about each of these databases (known issues,
+level of support, extra configuration) in the "databases" subdirectory in
+this folder.
diff --git a/maintenance/ibm_db2/README b/docs/databases/ibm_db2.txt
index 3c3f381c8e0f..3c3f381c8e0f 100644
--- a/maintenance/ibm_db2/README
+++ b/docs/databases/ibm_db2.txt
diff --git a/maintenance/sqlite/README b/docs/databases/sqlite.txt
index b8a4555380f4..b8a4555380f4 100644
--- a/maintenance/sqlite/README
+++ b/docs/databases/sqlite.txt