Re: OS/400 support?

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OS/400 support?
Date: 2003-01-07 08:44:16
Message-ID: 3E1A9360.5080102@postgresql.org
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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:
> cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com 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
>
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