Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:18:34 -0700 (PDT) From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) To: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <m0sjMdO-0000FgC@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> In-Reply-To: <199508180735.JAA02122@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at Aug 18, 95 09:35:26 am
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> > Again, as I said, all we need are whatever diffs or build procedures > > are necessary to building and *installing* the port and we can do the > > whole thing as a FreeBSD port. /usr/ports/databases has only 2 > > entries in it, and it'd sure be nice to have more than that! > > Barnacle Wes (wes@intele.net) has a port of postgres (probably > 4.whatever). He said he got it out of wcarchives incoming; must've > been before some cleaning action. I have asked him to put it back > there and notify ports@freebsd.org, but haven't heard of him since. Postgres95 is derived from Postgres v4r2 - there's an incomplete port of v4r2 to NetBSD/i386, and a version by (I think) Clarence Chu, who wouldn't release his sources. Pg95 is superior to v4r2 - there's now an SQL monitor (SQL-3, the O-O one) in place of Postquel, lots of bugs cleaned up, support for dead features/devices removed, and speeded up (30% better on Wisconsin benchmarks than v4r2). All in all a nice piece of work, by two grad students in Berkeley. And, like I say, it already works on FreeBSD, and has done for a coupla months now. I hacked around hugely with ingres89 last year, and sent sources to many people, as well as putting it up for ftp - I made it use GNU autoconfig, translated it to ANSI C, and tried to remove all the icky practices (like very early 4.1c-like socket code, duplicated functions etc). Andrew Moore told me it was going to go in some version of FreeBSD, but then Jordan's telephone conversation from hell happened, and I never heard anything again. Apart from that, mSQL works fine, and the author even tests it out on FreeBSD now and then, so there should be no problem with that one. Isn't OBST free, or GPL? Or isn't that considered a database? I'm sure there are others that I've missed. Alistair PS. I'm not making pg95 into a port for FreeBSD - I don't run FreeBSD, as you've all probably guessed by now. -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]
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