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From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
Subject: Re: Q: 386BSD UUCP help, Ingres/Postgres ported
Message-ID: <1992Sep4.164611.22151@nrao.edu>
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:46:11 GMT
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In article 19952@vbohub.vbo.dec.com, pederiva@cobolt.enet.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva) writes:
>-Does anybody know if there is a working version of ingres (or postgres)
> for 386BSD ..or if there's another good database program around that
> could be used instead ? ( Or how difficult it would be to port one of
> those programs .. )

Shared memory (and lots of it) is a prerequisite for POSTGRES.  Each client
has its own copy of the POSTGRES server and the different server processes
share buffers.  Shared memory does not seem to be supported in 386BSD 0.1
although there are some configuration hooks for it.

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu