On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Dave Millen wrote:

> I have managed to compile what appears to be a fully working version of
> Postgres95.
> 
> It is currently running with a 'test and set' subroutine written in 'C'
> where Intel(?) assembler was used in the original source. If Acorns used
> 680x0 chips, I would have been able to rewrite this in assembler, but
> I'm not sufficiently versed in ARM :-(
> 
> Also references to dynamic loading (a-la-Whinedoze '.dll' files) have
> been removed, as I understand that RiscBSD does not support dynamic
> loading (yet?). These were seeking header files that did not exist.
> 
> If anyone is sufficiently interested and familiar with SQL, Postgres or
> ARM assembler to test/develop this port, let me know.
> 
> As I have found no problems in half a day's testing, if there is
> sufficient interest, then I will submit the current version for
> inclusion in the 'contrib' section.

I would also be interested in this - I'm currently using mSQL, but would 
like to look at Postgres95 as an alternative.

Ben.

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Department of Computer Science
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