Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire(at)neurotica(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia(at)l00-bugdead-prods(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, vax(at)openbsd(dot)org, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, port-vax(at)netbsd(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
Date: 2014-06-24 19:44:01
Message-ID: 20140624194401.GA7340@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 12:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> > I think this means we can write off VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD as a viable
> > platform for Postgres :-(. I'm sad to hear it, but certainly have
> > not got the cycles personally to prevent it.
>
> Nonono...NetBSD/vax has had shared library support for many years.
> It's only OpenBSD that has that limitation.

So now we know that NetBSD/vax is free of the shared library limitation
that plagues OpenBSD, but does Postgres work on NetBSD/vax otherwise?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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