Re: [HACKERS] How good is FreeBSD for postgres ?

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:31:22 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How good is FreeBSD for postgres ? 
> 
> > I'm new in freeBSD (FreeBSD nature.ru 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #2)
> > and it seems there is a problem with shared objects.
> 
> I'm not likely to be much help on that; it's probably a freeBSD-specific
> issue.  Try the mailing list; there are other people using freeBSD.
> (Marc, I think, for one...)

Tom,

I probably understand what's going on. Most postgres developers still
use old a.out format while new versions switches to elf format
(what I'm actually using). I remember when it was happened with Linux
in 1995 and how many prolems were that time. I read freebsd mailing lists
and there are a lot of complaints about shared libs creating and usage.
Fortunately, I found that FreeBSD has nice porting policy and 
found patches to Postgres 6.4.2. I was surprised they were never applied,
well, at least to current 6.5 cvs tree. Two patches I found very useful - 
one to src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd and another  to
src/Makefile.shlib. I'm currently in process of rebuilding postgres
and will see. Hmm, I've lost connection to my server :-(
I could see in xterm that compilation and installation (with these patches)
passed OK and final message:

Thank you for choosing PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database engine.

Anyway, FreeBSD guru, please examine these patches ! They are for
postgres 6.4.2 and FreeBSD 3.1 release.
Regards,    Oleg


> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

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