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From: aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: general info on ports [was: POSTGRES ON AIX?]
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> I have a customer who would like to run the application Postgres on the
> RISC System/6000 under AIX. My customer has not been able to find a
> version of Postgres for the RISC System/6000 and has approached me
> to see if I can help. Like my customer, I have also not been able to
> contact anyone who has managed to port Postgres to AIX.

Rafael Morales Gamboa (postgres@rs970.mor.itesm.mx) at ITESM Campus 
Morelos, Mexico, has ported 4.0.1 to AIX 3.2.  I don't believe he 
has gotten the dynamic loader to work, however.  As far as I know,
he is willing to send his patches to anyone who asks.  (I also have
a copy of his patches if email to Rafael bounces.  If Rafael says
it's ok, I may just put them in the ftp directory on postgres..)

Some of Rafael's general portability fixes (e.g., things having to
do with the C preprocessor) were merged into 4.1 or otherwise fixed,
but we had no way to check or test the AIX-specific stuff (problems
with OS-specific header files, etc.). :-/

Anyway, for general information, this is "Paul's Private POSTGRES 
Port-list".  This is not "official poop," just info that I've culled 
from the mailing list since (re)joining the POSTGRES group in October.

vendor   cpu         os              postgres        done by
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEC      MIPS        Ultrix 4.[23]   4.1             Berkeley
DEC      Alpha AXP   OSF/1           (in progress)   Berkeley
H-P      PA-RISC     HP-UX 8.07      (in progress)   Berkeley
IBM      RS/6000     AIX 3.2         4.0.1           Rafael Morales Gamboa
                                                     postgres@rs970.mor.itesm.mx
Intel    80386       SVR4            4.0.1           Robert Withrow
                                                     witr@rwwa.com
Intel    80386       SVR4            4.0.1           Neil McQuaig
                                                     mcquaig!nmm@uunet.uu.net
SGI      MIPS        Irix            3.1             Rowland Johnson
                                                     rowland@vogon.llnl.gov
Sun      Sparc       SunOS 4.1       4.1             Berkeley
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This represents code that is still available for love or money.
(I say "money" because Robert and Neil are freelance consultants.)
The ancient Sun-3 and Sequent port code is no longer available
for either love or money..

> Can you please tell me what your plans are concerning the future of
> Postgres running under AIX, and is the chance of having Postgres
> ported to AIX in the near future?

I ***DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT*** speak for the research group.  However,
I think it's safe to point out the fact that our group at Berkeley 
has no AIX boxes, RS/6000 or otherwise.  Unless this situation 
"magically" changes, this obviously reduces the probability of our 
doing and supporting an AIX port to zero. :-)  So...

> After reading many of the appends in the IBM Internal forums, it
> would appear that there are many customers around the world who
> have expressed an interest in being able to run Postgres under AIX.

...again, I don't speak for the group, but anyone who might be in a 
position to arrange for some RS/6000s to appear in Berkeley should 
probably contact the POSTGRES chief programmer, Marc Teitelbaum 
(marc@postgres.berkeley.edu).
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