Re: OpenVMS Port?
От | Ron Johnson |
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Тема | Re: OpenVMS Port? |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 1052850053.655.56.camel@haggis обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: OpenVMS Port? ("Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:52, Dann Corbit wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:22 AM > > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > Cc: aforck@avondalemills.com > > Subject: [GENERAL] OpenVMS Port? > > > > > > Folks, > > > > Has anyone ported PostgreSQL to OpenVMS? Does anyone on > > this list know? > > > > Please "reply all", as the person who wants to know is not on > > the list. > > Nobody has done an OpenVMS port. OpenVMS does not have a real fork() > command, so it will be rather problematic. The Win32 porting effort may > make the port far more feasible once it has been completed, since > LIB$SPAWN() is a rough equivalent of CreateProcess() on Win32. > > Suggestion: > Get an Alpha DS10L (such as one of these -- they practically give them > away): > http://www.hpaq.net/alpha_ds10l_special.html > With Tru64 Unix installed on it and include that machine in your OpenVMS > cluster. > > Probably, porting the client to OpenVMS would be pretty easy and you > could access the data on the Tru64 UNIX machine using OpenVMS, or from > PC's connected via DECNET or TCP/IP. If host-based VMS apps are going to be accessing the DB, would it be quicker/easier, for now, to port the pg client libraries to VMS while leaving the actual DB on a Linux/Unix box? Ron -- Using VMS since 1989, and loving it...
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