Return-Path: aoki
Received: by postgres.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.29)
	id AA08811; Fri, 15 Jan 93 13:17:09 -0800
Message-Id: <9301152117.AA08811@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
From: <aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: some questions from a new user
To: postgres@postgres.berkeley.edu
Sender: pg_adm@postgres.berkeley.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:42:40 -0800 
	     <9301151840.AA07965@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 13:19:48 PST

I don't have a good answer for the error-handling question.  There aren't
any current plans that I know of to change it.

> - Has anyone written an embedded quel preprocessor ?

libpq is the only application interface that I know of.

> - Has anyone done any porting work to OSF ? Specifically OSF running on a DEC
>   Alpha box ? Would there be any significant difficulties due to 32/64 bit
>   issues ?

We are working on an Alpha port.  Yes, there are difficulties with 32/64-bit 
issues (though they appear to be of a "massive pain-in-the-rear" nature rather
than really "significant").  In fact, if you have any pull with the DEC
compiler guys, perhaps you could suggest that they provide a command-line 
switch that makes "int" 8 bytes for the OSF/1 C compiler..

> - How about NT ? I gather that the port to NT would by of much
>   greater difficulty since the sockets and shared memory mechanisms are so 
>   different.

A Berkeley-written NT port is still very much in the discussion/politics 
phase.

Disclaimer: I'm just a post_hacker.  I don't speak for Mike Stonebraker.
--
  Paul M. Aoki  |  CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB  |  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
                |  Berkeley, CA 94720           |  ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki