Re: OpenVMS Port?

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
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Using VMS since 1989, and loving it...