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From: hartzell@cory.berkeley.edu (George Hartzell)
Subject: Postgres and BSD (was Re: shared memory)
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Reply-To: hartzell@cs.berkeley.edu (George Hartzell)

Christoph Kukulies writes:
   >
   >>From what I know about Postgres it is making use of shared memory.
   >I would really love to use postgres under 386BSD but 386BSD, though
   >a very nice and stable system now, does not have shmem in it's present
   >state.
   >
   >Question: Is it possible to use other IPC mechanisms iin postgres to
   >replace shmem functionality?

There are several people interested in seeing Postgres run under BSD
based systems (4.4, BSD/386, 386BSD).  If someone doesn't do something
by the christmas break, I'm going to try to look at it.  Other folks
who are interested are:

        marc@cs.berkeley.edu (postgres person)
        jon kreuger (jpk@ingres.com).

g.