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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: ernie@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: databases on 386bsd : what is out there? Date: 7 Apr 1993 10:10:22 -0800 Organization: Woody - Public Access Unix - Melbourne Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1pv5ee$195@woody.apana.org.au> References: <1993Apr5.174025.17035@unlv.edu> In article <1993Apr5.174025.17035@unlv.edu> ostgard@unlv.edu (Doug Ostgard) writes: >What kind of database systems exist for 386bsd. I have been using >386bsd for a while now, but have not seen any mention of any >*completed* ports. Has anyone ported postgres? Are there any >xbase-type ports out there? Any sql database systems? > Ingres comilpiles with only minor mods. Postgres is too large for me to try (45MB) and it is only configured for Sun and Dec from what I can see in the docs. It also needs some calls like shmget(), shmop(), shmctl() which are for shared memory. I can not find a reference to these in BSD so I presume the needed shared memory support for Postgres is not there. - Ernie.