Subject: None
To: Arthur Hoffmann <hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <azcb0@uts.amdahl.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/11/1995 06:35:53
> I thought I saw that someone mentioned a poart of postgres to NetBSD a
> while ago. Where can I find this port and does it have support for the
> 68k architecture? (amiga port)

The URL is:

	ftp://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/postgres95/postgres95-1.0.tar.gz

and works fine on NetBSD/i386 1.1. I've heard that it works fine on
the sparc port, too, so there don't seem to be any byte-order funnies
in there (although take a look in the www/bugs/p*.html for 14 patches
that should be applied to the 1.0 sources - at least one of them deals
with order-dependencies when the backend is on a different byte-ordered
machine to the client program).

Someone mentioned that you need dynamic loading, and so you may be out
of luck if you're on one of the more esoteric ports.  I'm not sure
about this, and would say that pg95 should run fine, albeit with
reduced functionality, without dynamic loading - it just means that
you can't define C functions for the backend to load at will. 
However, I haven't tried this.  (From memory, the previous v4r2 port
didn't have support for dynamic loading, and most of the regression
tests ran fine.)

Alistair
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