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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Port of Postgres 4.0/Picasso?
Message-ID: <1993Feb6.084829.2883@netcom.com>
Keywords: postgres DBMS, Picasso Interface Toolkit, porting
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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 08:48:29 GMT
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In article <C201Fx.3FE@lut.fi> junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela) writes:
>In article <1993Feb5.182943.24667@coe.montana.edu>, osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>|> In article <C1y0EA.9vx@acsu.buffalo.edu> jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS) writes:
>|> >I have been considering tackling Postgres and Picasso ports
>|> >to 386bsd, but wanted to first ask if anyone has already done
>|> >this, has tried unsuccessfully, or thinks there is a better
>|> >solution to database needs.
>|> 
>|> Hmph.  Methinks the first problem will be the lack of shared memory, which
>|> should make it exciting.  Overcoming that might be tough.
>
>There is shared memory. It's just not compiled in. Adding SYSVSHM to kernel
>options creates it. The C-callable system calls (shm*()) are missing, however.
>
>-- 
>         juha nurmela, Adr. 54430 Hujakkala, Finland. Tel. 953 78022
>                  eiku: skinnarilank. 28d10, Tel. 953 26292

I am curious as to if there is an mmap interface just a wild guess because
postgress has been ported to Ultrix.

Amancio


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