Pgsql on Solaris

[<vodhner(at)cox(dot)net>]

How widespread is the use of PostgreSQL on Solaris?  I am beginning to sense that community support is not currently very strong on this platform, and that pgsql may not be the best candidate for my current project -- installing LXR on a 64-bit Solaris system.

I had to do a lot of web searching to learn how to get past a compilation problem, apparently fixed for the current release; and now It appears (based on the reply below) that the "configure" setup is not ready to recognize 64-bit solaris environment; the 32-bit executables are incompatible with 64-bit Perl.  I am not an autoconf hacker, and can't afford in this case to go "where none have gone before".

This is always a challenge with Free Software, of course:  potential users of a given product need to know how to pick their battles.

So, please advise as to the level of 64-bit Solaris 10 activity with pgsql.

Thanks,
Victor Odhner

---- Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote: 
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:40:41PM -0700, vodhner(at)cox(dot)net wrote:
> How can I get the "make" to generate ELF 64-bit executables on Solaris 10?
> We're on Fujitsu hardware; uname -a displays this:
>   SunOS .... 5.10 Generic_118822-26 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M

Well, to start with, are you using a compiler that can generate 64
bit binaries?  How about your libs?

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