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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!csir.uni.net.za!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!ng1.icn.state.ia.us!beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us!geoffrey From: geoffrey@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us (geoffrey alexander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Postgres-4.2 port Date: 11 Jun 97 20:11:50 GMT Organization: ICN News Server Lines: 18 Message-ID: <geoffrey.866059910@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us> References: <5nm6bm$7uq1@lyra.hkstar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42800 clc@b1.hkstar.com (Chu Chiu Leung) writes: >hi there, >it's been a while that postgres-4.2 had been ported and >posted since FreeBSD-2.0. >had there been anyone success in running the binaries now? >i would like to do a port again, anew. any interested parties? I tried building a couple weeks ago, but one of the install (or post-install, to be precise) scripts is broken in the source, and I couldn't fix it. I went instead with the new MDBMS you may have seen posted about recently -- source is not available but the binaries run great out of the box. Nice telnet interface to the SQL engine, and C and cgi interfaces too. g.