I am going to take all of your patches, make one mega-patch, then send it to you for review.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulrich Neumann wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I know all about the story of PostgreSQL for NetWare. > > I will tell you the story now: > First I want to introduce myself: > I'm a Novell DeveloperNet SysOp and i'm working with the database > team and the C Library team at Novell in Provo/Utah. > > The story starts last year in may at Novell's BrainShare in > Nice/France. > I've spoken with several people about the open source community and > what's missing on NetWare and how this can be combined with Novells > Directory Service to manage all this stuff. During this time only > Apache 1.3 > and Tomcat 3.2 was available as open source on NetWare. > > The Database area was a totally vacuum and the need for an alternative > for Oracle was huge. > > The result was that I've started to analyze a lot of databases and > after some > discussions i've decided to port PostgreSQL because of the features > and > stability. Nearly at the same time Novell was working on a new C > Library > to offer a C/C++ environment that is as much POSIX/ANSI C/BSD/UNIX98 > compliant as possible. The first step was to enhance this C Library to > have > all the functionality I need for PostgreSQL. In November i've been in > Utah > to discuss the open source database PostgreSQL and how it's going. The > result was that there is a small team now working on MySQL and > PostgreSQL. > > I'm the man who drives PostgreSQL and another guy, R.Lyon drives > MySQL. > There are several other people supporting us. > > Additonal PHP4, mod_perl, JBoss, Motif and several other open source > initiatives are in the works at Novell. We are all working together to > have a > unique solution. Everything is planned to be pushed back to the open > source > community. I think that's a great benefit for all these projects. > > In march at Novell's Brainshare in Salt Lake City some of these > projects have > been demonstrated and nearly everything was functional. Now there is > much work in stability, performance and in directory integration > together > with one unified management tool across all of these open source and > the commercial projects. At the end all open source projects will be > stress > tested in Novell's superlab, the biggest testlab on earth. It's > possible to > test on hundreds of different servers and thousands of client > machines. > > The first Beta's of PostgreSQL for NetWare have been sent out last > week > to some selected customers and next week a first beta refresh will be > sent > out. > > It is planned to ship all these open source projects during this > summer, > and the new management tool in the 1st half next year. > Apache2 was the first in that line. > > Ulrich Neumann > > > >>> Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12.06.2002 16:49:11 >>> > Hi, > > there were several people at my talk asking if PostgreSQL is available > on Novell Netware. I know I read about someone working on this, but > didn't follow the thread at all since I do not have any Netware > servers. > > Does anyone out there know more? > > Thanks in advance. > > Michael > -- > Michael Meskes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! > Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------------- > This e-mail is virus scanned > Diese e-mail ist virusgeprueft > > > ---------------------------(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 > -- 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 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster