Re: Regarding availability of 32bit client drivers for postgresql 13/14

WHY 32-bit in 2022 under RHEL 8.5?

On 8/16/22 23:53, Aravind Phaneendra wrote:
>
> Thank you Adrian for the response,
>
> We are looking for 32bit client drivers for RHEL 8.5.
>
> An another question .. How does the enterprise customers using PostgreSQL
> can subscribe to official support ?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Aravind Phaneendra
>
> CICS TX and TXSeries Development & L3 Support
>
> India Systems Development Labs
>
> IBM Systems
>
> *From: *Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 9:57 AM
> *To: *Aravind Phaneendra <aphaneen(at)in(dot)ibm(dot)com>,
> pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: Regarding availability of 32bit client drivers
> for postgresql 13/14
>
> On 8/16/22 20:46, Aravind Phaneendra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Aravind and I am part of IBM CICS TX product development and
> > support. We have a requirement from one of our customers to use IBM CICS
> > TX with PostgreSQL 13/14. IBM CICS TX is a Transaction Manager
> > middleware product that is deployed as container on Kubernetes
> > platforms. IBM CICS TX can interact with database products such as DB2,
> > Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL through XA/Open standards.
> >
> > CICS TX is a 32bit C runtime product and uses the databases’ 32bit
> > client libraries to perform embedded SQL operations. The customer
> > applications are Embedded SQL C or COBOL programs deployed on CICS TX
> > and CICS TX runtime executes them as transactions ensuring the data
> > integrity.
> >
> > We observed there are no 32bit client binaries/libraries available with
> > PostgreSQL 13/14 and CICS TX require them to interact with the
> > PostgreSQL server. Currently we have tested with PostgreSQL 10.12.1 and
> > our customer wants to upgrade to PostgreSQL 13 or 14.
> >
> > Based on the above requirements and details, we have few questions which
> > require your support.
> >
> >  1. Can we get 32bit client binaries/libraries for PostgreSQL 14 ?
>
> The ODBC driver does it:
>
> https://odbc.postgresql.org/docs/win32-compilation.html
>
> Also the Build farm:
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
>
> has 32bit/i686 members that show green.
>
> >  2. We also found that the libraries can be built by using the
> >     PostgreSQL 14 source. Is it possible to build the 32bit client
> >     binaries/libraries from the source available ?
>
> Try it and see.
>
> >  3. Is there an official support for 32bit client libraries/binaries
> >     built out of source for customers ?
> >  4. Can the PostgreSQL 10.12.1 client work with PostgreSQL 14 server ?
> >     Do you still support PostgreSQL 10.12.1 client ?
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> >
> > Aravind Phaneendra
> >
> > CICS TX and TXSeries Development & L3 Support
> >
> > India Systems Development Labs
> >
> > IBM Systems
> >
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>

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