Re: OpenVMS?

Dann Corbit wrote:
> > PostgreSQL uses fork(), which is not supported on OpenVMS. However,
> > the techniques used by the WIN32 version of internal_forkexec() in
> > src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c give the VMS version a good
> > starting point.
> 
> For PostgreSQL, you will probably want to use LIB$SPAWN() as a rough equivalent to CreateProcess() on Windows

Ah, LIB$SPAWN, that brings back memories.

> http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$vaxdocsep002/opsys/vmsos721/5932/5932pro_041.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??

I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support
for a platform that has such marginal usage.

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