Re: [rfc,patch] PL/Proxy in core

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Marko Kreen wrote:

> On 5/15/08, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Has PL/proxy been tested on other OSes? FreeBSD/Solaris/Windows?
>
> It definitely works on Linux and MacOS. I've seen ports for *BSD.
> I think any unix-like OS-es should work fine.

I've compiled it with a minor Makefile modification on Solaris and it
seems to work (it passes all the unit tests but the one involving
random; we might want to rethink that test so 'passes' on platforms with
different implementations of random()). However, I haven't deployed it into
a production environment.

Somewhat unrelated, I can see use-cases for replacing the call to random()
with something that allows user defined polices for RUN ON ANY.

>
> In fact, only syscalls it does on its own are gettimeofday() and poll()
> [or select()], otherwise it calls either core or libpq functions.
> So I see no reason why it shouldnt already work on Windows.
>
> The biggest portability problem thus far has been scanner.l, which at
> the beginning was written for flex 2.5.33+, but 2.5.4 is still pretty
> widespread. But this I fixed in 2.0.3.
>
> Hmm.. Now that I think about it, in my effort to remove malloc() calls
> in both scanner and parser I told bison to use alloca(). Is it portability
> concern? Easy to fix, just need to be careful not to create memleaks.
>
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