Re: Call for platforms

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no> writes:

> > We need some NetBSD folks to speak up!
> 
> I've once again got a VAX that should be able to run PostgreSQL on
> NetBSD/vax, so I hope to be able to help revitalize that port soon...

It still works.  RC1 configures, compiles and runs on my VAX 4000/500
with NetBSD-current -- but the regression tests give a lot of failures
because the VAX doesn't have IEEE math, leading to different rounding
and erroneous assumptions about the limits of floating point values.
I'll be looking at this more closely.

Also, dynamic loading now works on NetBSD/vax, so my old #ifdef for
that in the backend/port/bsd.c file, which has since propagated into
the new *bsd.c files, can go away (actually, I'm suspicious of the
MIPS part of those, too, but I didn't put that in, and I don't have 
any MIPS-based machines):

Index: src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -c -r1.9 freebsd.c
*** src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c    2001/02/10 02:31:26    1.9
--- src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c    2001/04/01 08:01:20
***************
*** 63,69 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not
supported",file);     return NULL; #else
 
--- 63,69 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not supported", file);     return NULL; #else
***************
*** 78,84 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed",
name);    return NULL; #else
 
--- 78,84 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed", name);     return NULL; #else
***************
*** 101,107 **** void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__)) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif
--- 101,107 ---- void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif
Index: src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -c -r1.3 netbsd.c
*** src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c    2001/02/10 02:31:26    1.3
--- src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c    2001/04/01 08:01:20
***************
*** 63,69 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not
supported",file);     return NULL; #else
 
--- 63,69 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not supported", file);     return NULL; #else
***************
*** 78,84 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed",
name);    return NULL; #elif defined(__ELF__)
 
--- 78,84 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed", name);     return NULL; #elif defined(__ELF__)
***************
*** 101,107 **** void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__)) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif
--- 101,107 ---- void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif
Index: src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -c -r1.3 openbsd.c
*** src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c    2001/02/10 02:31:26    1.3
--- src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c    2001/04/01 08:01:20
***************
*** 63,69 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not
supported",file);     return NULL; #else
 
--- 63,69 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlopen(const char *file, int num) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlopen (%s) not supported", file);     return NULL; #else
***************
*** 78,84 **** void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__))     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed",
name);    return NULL; #elif defined(__ELF__)
 
--- 78,84 ---- void * BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name) {
! #if defined(__mips__)     sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed", name);     return NULL; #elif defined(__ELF__)
***************
*** 101,107 **** void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__vax__)) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif
--- 101,107 ---- void BSD44_derived_dlclose(void *handle) {
! #if defined(__mips__) #else     dlclose(handle); #endif


-tih
-- 
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