Re: Porting to Haiku

> "Mark Hellegers" <mhellege@xs4all.nl> writes:
> > - Assuming all patches are applied to get Postgresql running, what 
> > does 
> > it require to keep it in there? I noticed you removed the BeOS 
> > port, 
> > because no one was maintaining it. What does it take to maintain a 
> > port?
> 
> These days, the expectation is that somebody runs a buildfarm member
> on that platform:
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/index.html
> You might want to look into whether you can get the buildfarm script
> to run before you go too far.

I will check that this weekend. Thanks.
Does this buildfarm member need to run continuously?

> > - Can I submit patches for smaller parts or do I need to submit all 
> > the 
> > patches in one go? For example, can I submit the patch for the 
> > configure part first and other changes later?
> 
> Well, it'd depend on how invasive the earlier patches are.  We might
> want to see some evidence that the project will reach completion 
> before
> we hack up the code too much.

I just did a quick check of my changes and the changes seem minor.  The 
only major changes are the port specific parts in src/backend/port.
Postgresql is running. I can login with psql and create a table, insert 
data and query it. ODBC access is also working. There does seem to be a 
problem with starting autovacuum, which I am still investigating.
> > - I have a problem compiling Postgresql after I installed iodbc. 
> > Iodbc 
> > also contains a header called sqltypes.h, which the compiler picks 
> > up 
> > before the one in the ecpg include directory as it is in the 
> > general 
> > include directory for the system. Is that something someone has 
> > seen 
> > before and knows what is wrong? It could be some mistake I made in 
> > my 
> > changes.
> 
> Hm, I don't recall this having been reported before.  Check the order
> of -I switches in the ecpg makefiles.  It certainly sounds like a 
> risk
> that we might want to fix independently of any particular port.

I will try to check on that this weekend.
I also found (I think) two places where the implementation of a 
function contained slightly different parameters from the declaration 
which breaks on Haiku as an int is not the same as int32 (see src/
backend/catalog/dependency.c function deleteOneObject for one of 
those).
> > I am planning to get the latest sources from git and apply my 
> > patches 
> > on that source as I am assuming that is preferred and I don't need 
> > 9.2.1 specifically.
> 
> Yeah, we would probably not consider back-patching such changes, so 
> you
> may as well work against master.
> 


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