Return-Path: claire Received: by postgres.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.29) id AA22184; Fri, 12 Feb 93 15:57:06 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 15:57:06 -0800 Message-Id: <9302122357.AA22184@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> From: Subject: Re: access method manual? To: postgres@postgres.berkeley.edu Sender: pg_adm@postgres.berkeley.edu You can ftp all the postgres papers. They are in postgres-papers.tar.Z in ftp/pub/postgres Version 4.01 of the public-domain POSTGRES DBMS is available for distribution. General improvements have been made in many areas. A strong push toward "ansification" has resulted in the routing out of some obscure problems. features include: o Functional indices (secondary indices on single valued functions) are now supported. o The documentation, reference manual and tutorials have been completely rewritten. The new version now accurately reflects the status of POSTGRES implementation. o Significant improvements in aggregate functionality have been added. A number of built-in aggregates have been defined. Postgres runs on Sparc I, Sparc II, Sun 4, diskful Sun 3's, and DECstations running Ultrix >= 4.01, as well as Sequent Symmetry machines. Postgres consists of about 200,000 lines of C. If you would like to get Postgres 4.01, you can get it in one of two ways: (1) Anonymous FTP from postgres.berkeley.edu To FTP postgres to your site, type the following bracketed text without brackets. You should see similar output. % ftp 128.32.149.1 - or - % ftp postgres.berkeley.edu Connected to 128.32.149.1. 220 postgres FTP server (Version 4.4 Sun Feb 5 07:58:07 PST 1989) ready. Name (128.32.149.1:): [ anonymous ] 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password:[ mylogin@myhost ] 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> [ cd pub/postgres ] 250 CWD command successful. ftp> [ get postgres-setup.me.Z ] 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for postgres-setup.me (NNNNNNN bytes). ftp> [ binary ] 200 Type set to I. ftp> [ get postgres-v4r0r1.tar.Z ] 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v4r0r1.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: postgres-v4r1.tar.Z remote: postgres-v4r0r1.tar.Z NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s) continue using the "get" command and obtain the following files as well as the ones listed in the example above. postgres-v4r0r1.bugs postgres.faq.Z postgres-papers.tar.Z then quit. ftp> [ quit ] 221 Goodbye. % Or, if you do not have net.access, you can order a Postgres distribution tape by sending a check payable to the Regents of the University of California for $150.00 to: Postgres Project 557 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720. Indicate in your accompanying letter whether you want the system on a 9-track tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI, on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 150 format), or on a TK50 DEC cartridge tape. Marc Teitelbaum Postgres Chief Programmer marc@postgres.berkeley.edu _______________________ A Silicin Graphics version of Postgres v3r1 may be obtained by anonymous ftp from vogon.llnl.gov The file to obtain is /pub/sgipostgres.tar.Z We have done some testing of this port but it has not been fully tested. We are not currently using this port and we have no plans to port Postgres v4 to the SGI. You are welcome to use this port but we can not maintain it. Rowland R Johnson (510) 423-3064 rowland@vogon.llnl.gov