Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some time ago there was a guy from Novell posting on hackers about the > > porting of PostgreSQL to Netware. He sounded like most of the job was > > already done, but he wanted to have some patches accepted to be able to > > build with a toolchain different from GNU make and friends (because it > > was one or two orders of magnitude faster). He left some time later > > because of the null support he received for that, it seems. > > What is this, a troll? We gave that project quite a lot of support. > My recollection is that we lost interest somewhere around here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-08/msg00278.php > when it became clear that Netware couldn't or wouldn't try to arrange > their code to keep the amount of platform-specific stuff reasonable. > The patch as they were proposing it would have been completely > unmaintainable --- certainly so for the community, probably for them > too.
Last I remember they were going to port gmake to Novell and use that for the port,but we never heard back from them. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
