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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: Q: 386BSD UUCP help, Ingres/Postgres ported
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.164611.22151@nrao.edu>
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- Organization: NRAO
- References: <1992Sep3.211601.19952@vbohub.vbo.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:46:11 GMT
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- In article 19952@vbohub.vbo.dec.com, pederiva@cobolt.enet.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva) writes:
- >-Does anybody know if there is a working version of ingres (or postgres)
- > for 386BSD ..or if there's another good database program around that
- > could be used instead ? ( Or how difficult it would be to port one of
- > those programs .. )
-
- Shared memory (and lots of it) is a prerequisite for POSTGRES. Each client
- has its own copy of the POSTGRES server and the different server processes
- share buffers. Shared memory does not seem to be supported in 386BSD 0.1
- although there are some configuration hooks for it.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-