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From: aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: Re: OSF/1 port of Postgres
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Ram Kalkunte - 293-5139 <kalkunte@msbcs.enet.dec.com> writes:
> Is anyone porting Postgres to OSF ? 
> Has anyone looked into the issues of doing this work and care to share 
> this info ?

the postgres group at berkeley is in the process of porting postgres
to osf/1 on alphas.  sorry, "alpha axp (tm)" :-)

osf/1 hasn't been the big problem so far.  worse is the fact that we 
make the implicit assumption in a lot of places that 
	sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *)
and, less frequently, the explicit assumption that
	sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *) == 4
neither of which sits very well with the alpha... :-)
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