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From: cflatter@laphroaig.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Subject: Re: postgres on AIX 3.1.x ???
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> 
> > My understanding is that AIX doesn't support shared memory, so I don't
> > know if it is even possible to port postgres.  Any hard information on this?
> 
> It is possible, but the Postgres depends rather heavily on shared memory
> support and so porting becomes a bit more difficult. I'm not an os guru,
> but as I understand it there are ways of getting around this problem.

AIX 3.x.x _does_ support shared memory.  Check the shmat man page.

AIX conforms to the SVID (version 2) after all.

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu