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From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Port of Postgres 4.0/Picasso?
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 23:33:32 GMT
References: <C1y0EA.9vx@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1993Feb5.182943.24667@coe.montana.edu>
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Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Keywords: postgres DBMS, Picasso Interface Toolkit, porting
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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.
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