Where to FTP Postgres95?
The most current version is 1.01. You can ftp Postgres95 anonymously from
s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.edu as
pub/postgres95/postgres95-1.01.tar.gz
It is also available from the following mirror sites:
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Postgres95 Mailing List
With the generosity of the people at
Vnet, especially Jason Wright, the
postgres95 mailing list now has a new home -- postgres95@postgres95.vnet.net.
It is available for discussion of matters pertaining to Postgres95, including
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Available ports of Postgres95
The authors have compiled and tested Postgres95 on the following
platforms:
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OSF 2.1, 3.0, 3.2/Alpha with cc and gcc 2.7.0
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Ultrix 4.4/DECStation with cc and gcc 2.7.0 (libdl package required)
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SunOS 4.1.3/SPARC with gcc 2.7.0
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Solaris 2.4/SPARC with gcc 2.7.0
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HP-UX 9.0/HP 9000/700 with cc. (It is possible to compile Postgres95
with gcc but the dynamic loader will not work.)
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Linux/Intel x86, ELF format: kernel 1.2.10, gcc 2.6.3
The following ports are bundled with the Postgres95 distribution. The
authors do not have handy access to these platforms but the ports have been
tested by the respective contributors:
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BSD44_derived/i386 by Alistair Crooks
(agc@uts.amdahl.com). Tested on NetBSD 1.0. Should also work
for FreeBSD and BSD/OS.
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AIX/IBM RS6000 (from POSTGRES 4.2 AIX port) with patches from
Mike Tung (mike@ibm4.carb.nist.gov)
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IRIX 5/SGI by Paul 'Shag' Walmsley
(ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu). Tested on IRIX 5.3.
The following ports are available but not bundled with the
distribution (patches can be found in
ftp://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/postgres95/contrib):
- Solaris/Intel X86 with patches
from Bruce Cota bruce@kodokan.vivi.com
- SVR4 partial port with patches
from Manfred Weichel Manfred.Weichel@mch.sni.de
- NEXTSTEP 3.x port of release 1.0 from R&A (shareware).
See
annoucement
for details.
Acknowledgements
The 1.01 release was made possible with the help of:
- Julian Assange
- Alistair Crooks
- J. Douglas Dunlop
- Tom Hageman
- Claire Mosher
- Dorothy Moore
- Keith Parks
- Robert Patrick
- Charles F. Randall
- Paul 'Shag' Walmsley
- Jason Wright
The POSTGRES 4.2 HP-UX port is courtesy of Richard Turnbull (University
of Liverpool) and Sebastian Fernandez (University of California at
Berkeley). The initial POSTGRES 4.2 AIX port was performed by Rafael
Morales Gamboa (ITESM Campus Morelos, Cuernavaca).
The Postgres95 BSD44_derived port was done by Alistair
Crooks (Amdahl Corporation). The initial Windows NT port was performed by
Jon Forrest (University of California at Berkeley). The AIX
port was done by Mike Tung (NIST). The IRIX port was done by
Paul 'Shag' Walmsley (University of Missouri).
Last modified: Mon Feb 26 10:56:29 PST 1996
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