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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!faps.uni-erlangen.de!krebs From: krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Krebs) Subject: Re: Postgres for FreeBSD/386BSD Message-ID: <ZTCNBI7I@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: faber.faps.uni-erlangen.de Organization: FAPS, University of Erlangen References: <764484737.AA00921@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 14:58:16 GMT Lines: 42 Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) writes: >i would like to know if there's any port made to postgres >for freebsd/386bsd. > There is a more or less working port of postgres-4.01(!) for 386bsd. That should work with few changes on FreeBSD1.02. You can find that in: ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de /pub/BSD/LOCAL or in s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu /pub/postgres/unofficial-ports/386bsd >i'd got a copy of postgres port to linux, but it complaint on >compilation to 0.99.15, also linux crash if i don't use LILO >but os-bs. > >the porting problem to freebsd/386bsd was, IMHO, the availabilty >of SYSV_IPC, semophore and messages in particular. since >sysv_shm had been implemented, is there semophore/msg ports to >freebsd to facilitate postgres porting? > > >the porting problem to freebsd/386bsd was, IMHO, the availabilty >of SYSV_IPC, semophore and messages in particular. since >sysv_shm had been implemented, is there semophore/msg ports to >freebsd to facilitate postgres porting? > FreeBSD 1.1(BETA) supports semaphores. I began to port postgres-4.2 when it came out. I compiled the whole stuff and could already build the initial database. Problems arise, when I try to connect to the backend via the monitor.... If you are interested to help, drop me a mail... Thomas P.S: Seems there is a postgres-on-FreeBSD-interest-group coming up... -- Thomas Krebs Department for Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems FAPS University of Erlangen krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de