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From: neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve)
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I guess Dan Bidwell never posted info about his port to this
forum. (Perhaps intentionally so? ;-| )

But since I've been getting a lot of queries for the whereabouts of
this port, I hope Dan doesn't mind if I post a copy of his
original letter to me announcing the port. I do this mainly in the
hope that others will try it out and either fix the problems with
the regression tests I'm seeing or show me what I'm doing wrong.

Leif Neve


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>From bidwell@andrews.edu Thu Dec  9 01:03:03 1993
Subject: Postgres 4.1 on Solaris 2.3
To: neve@nlm.nih.gov
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 01:03:37 -0500 (EST)

I know that this is long overdue, but again, there hasn't been anyone
paying me to do this.  I have a port of Postgres 4.1 for Solaris 2.3 on
the Sparc architecture.  Part of the reason that I haven't released it
earlier is that it doesn't make it all the way through the regression
tests.  It just hangs and quits.  I haven't been able to find any good
reason for it.

We have used this for a graduate class in database and it worked fine
for this class.

I have since started to attempt to make Robert Withrow's SVR4 port work
on Solaris 2.3.  I have it compiling, but it will not run yet.  I was
hoping that this might be easier then find the problem in the port that
I have done.

I have a complete package of what is need for Solaris on

	elrond.cs.andrews.edu:/pub

There are three files, tared and gziped:

	bmake.bin.tgz which is the binary file and *.mk files for bmake
	postgres.solaris.bin.tgz which is executables for 4.1 on Solaris 2.3
	postgres.solaris.tgz which is a complete source tree

Anyone is welcome to what is here on a what you see is what you get
basis.  If someone can find the problem that is keeping it from passing
the regression tests, I would like to know what the changes are.

I would be happy to try to answer any questions about this port, but I
am not a database person.
-- 
Daniel R. Bidwell	|	bidwell@andrews.edu
Andrews University	Computer Science & Information Systems Department
If two always agree, one of them is unnecesary
"Friends don't let friends do DOS"
"In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, however, they are not."

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