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From: Tom Lane on 16 Feb 2010 17:54 Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> writes: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support >>> for a platform that has such marginal usage. >> >> Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? > Well, there is going to be impact on the community too --- patches, > testing, etc. The community effort is small, but isn't zero. No, I suspect the community effort would be *large*. VMS is sufficiently unlike Unix that this port would probably be akin to the Windows port in terms of invasiveness, fragility, and general need for everyone to bend over backwards for it. The discussion about fork substitutes should give you some idea of what we'd be in for. I think the odds of getting the community to support such a port are not easily distinguishable from zero, and I agree with Bruce's desire to dissuade anyone from pouring effort down the drain. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Josh Berkus on 16 Feb 2010 18:38 All, In my 12 years on the PostgreSQL project, this is the 2nd time, ever, I've heard a question about OpenVMS support. The previous time was in 2003. Maybe there's an untapped community out there, but personally I think we'd find more users on z/OS than on OpenVMS. --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Tom Lane on 16 Feb 2010 19:21 Josh Berkus <josh(a)agliodbs.com> writes: > In my 12 years on the PostgreSQL project, this is the 2nd time, ever, > I've heard a question about OpenVMS support. The previous time was in 2003. Well, a search of our archives for "OpenVMS" finds a few more, but it still looks like about one request a year. If we could have a port for an amount of effort roughly commensurate with that level of interest, I'd be all for it. But I'm afraid the work would be far out of proportion to that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Rayson Ho on 16 Feb 2010 22:14 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, David Fetter wrote: > You clearly know vastly more than I do about this, and should lead this effort :) I have been working on OpenVMS on and off for a few years, but I am sure a lot of people are more qualified than I am :) I guess I will create a page in the PostgreSQL wiki about the port, and put the ToDOs list in there. To others: Given that Ingres was ported to OpenVMS, and given that many other opensource apps have been ported to OpenVMS without a lot of effort, I believe we should at least try before giving up OpenVMS. Rayson P.S. Ingres has a number of VMS users: http://community.ingres.com/forum/dba-forum/653-will-ingres-ported-openvms-itanium.html http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/post-3095363.html >> Lastly, are we going to support ODS-2 disks?? And are we going to >> require GNV installed for building and running PostgreSQL on >> OpenVMS?? > > You tell us :) > > Cheers, > David. > -- > David Fetter <david(a)fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter(a)gmail.com > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
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