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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: Bruce Lowe <lowe@zso.dec.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for info update 
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Bruce Lowe <lowe@zso.dec.com> writes:
> - The biggest obstacle I have found for getting good use from Postgres is the
>   apparent lack of a facility for retrieving status/error information.

setting PQerrormsg was more than a little hit-or-miss; it's been 
made a bit more consistent in our current code.

> - Has anyone written an embedded quel preprocessor ?

not at ucb..

> - 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 ?

our next release [out of which i am still trying to shake one 
last mean multiuser bug that only manifests itself on sparcs >-( 
before turning the code over to marc] supports alpha osf/1.  in fact,
that's now more or less our main development platform..

> - 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.

greg kemnitz (kemnitz@multisys.com) did a port of 4.0.1 to NT and
posted a note to one of the NT groups about it.  i don't know if
he is giving out that code or not.
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