Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Hi guys, Have passed on the info everyone provided about ways of getting PostgreSQL working on the OS/400 on to the requestor. It would be interesting to see if they go with it. Thanks for the assistance... more stuff will keep on coming through of course. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was based on the CMU Hydra project, Really!? Small world ... I was part of the Hydra team, more years ago than I like to admit in public. Somehow, I'm not sure that PostgreSQL-on-OS/400 is likely to be more than a curiosity. Probably. But a lot of our ports are just curiosities, at least to them as aren't running that particular OS. My feeling is that Postgres on top of PASE might be reasonable to support; I doubt we'd want to mess with a native port. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Hi everyone, We don't support OS/400 yet do we? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:27 PM To: Justin Clift Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support? Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? It's IBM. Not terribly Unix-y. This link may prove helpful: http://www-919.ibm.com/developer/factory/porting/faq_proc.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? I think Justin is refering to the AS/400 operating system. I have never heard of Postgres supporting this operating system. Gavin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? Oops, should have been clearer. OS/400 is the operating system on the IBM AS/400 series of midrange computers: Info: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html IBM AS/400 page: http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/eServer/iSeries/ Not sure if it's Unix-y or not. Just had the question come through the Advocacy site request form. Will see if anyone else has further info, and then ask the requestor for further details if not. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift regards, tom lane -- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OS/400 is the operating system on the IBM AS/400 series of midrange computers: Info: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html IBM AS/400 page: http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/eServer/iSeries/ Not sure if it's Unix-y or not. Just had the question come through the Advocacy site request form. Will see if anyone else has further info, and then ask the requestor for further details if not. AFAIK it's not Unix-y *at* *all*. The best/only way to run PG on that hardware without an immense porting effort would be to run Linux alongside OS/400 in an LPAR (logical partition). -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Info: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html That page quoth OS/400 and its related software has added support for: The Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE), which supports a subset of the AIX environment so that Unix applications can be ported and run on the AS/400 This suggests that our AIX port might work with little or no tweaking. Or perhaps not; subset could cover a multitude of sins. But it'd be worth trying. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Info: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html That page quoth OS/400 and its related software has added support for: The Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE), which supports a subset of the AIX environment so that Unix applications can be ported and run on the AS/400 This suggests that our AIX port might work with little or no tweaking. Or perhaps not; subset could cover a multitude of sins. But it'd be worth trying. That would be very wild if we could do that. Who volunteered? ;) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) transmitted: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We don't support OS/400 yet do we? Never heard of it. Is it Unix-y? Do you have one available for testing? No, OS/400 is what replaced IBM System 34, System 36, and System 38. (Apparently they jumped to 40, and then multiplied by 10 to suggest it was 10x as good...) It was based on the CMU Hydra project, which built an OS with a pretty strong security kernel, with ties to the orthogonal persistence notion. By this point, they have created a POSIX-emulation environment so it can pretend to be somewhat like a Unix, but underneath, it's a database system for running RPG code. As such, it kind of starts as a DBMS. Somehow, I'm not sure that PostgreSQL-on-OS/400 is likely to be more than a curiosity. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string moc.enworbbc@ enworbbc)) http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html If you can't see the bright side of things, polish the dark side... ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dan Langille wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Info: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html That page quoth OS/400 and its related software has added support for: The Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE), which supports a subset of the AIX environment so that Unix applications can be ported and run on the AS/400 This suggests that our AIX port might work with little or no tweaking. Or perhaps not; subset could cover a multitude of sins. But it'd be worth trying. That would be very wild if we could do that. Who volunteered? ;) It might be pretty simple given PASE support and a hardware/OS manual. The problem is that first assumption: how many OS/400 users have PASE implemented? I'd say, not many. Gavin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It might be pretty simple given PASE support and a hardware/OS manual. The problem is that first assumption: how many OS/400 users have PASE implemented? I'd say, not many. It says here: http://www-919.ibm.com/developer/factory/pase/v5r2.html that PASE is standard as of OS/400 V5R2. Anyone know how old that is? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] OS/400 support?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was based on the CMU Hydra project, Really!? Small world ... I was part of the Hydra team, more years ago than I like to admit in public. Somehow, I'm not sure that PostgreSQL-on-OS/400 is likely to be more than a curiosity. Probably. But a lot of our ports are just curiosities, at least to them as aren't running that particular OS. My feeling is that Postgres on top of PASE might be reasonable to support; I doubt we'd want to mess with a native port. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
