Re: postgres on a PDA

Al Bean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a linux based PDA (the Zaurus from Sharp).  There are no good,
> open source  databases for this device so I'm thinking of
> cross-compiling postgresql for the ARM processor and getting it to run
> on the Zaurus.  I need to do this because I have a 150MB Access database
> that I would like to take with me (I'll figure out some way to port the
> data once I get postgres up and running).
>
> My PDA has 32MB of RAM (well more like 16 with the way Sharp allocates
> it) and I use a 256MB FLASH memory card which sort of looks like a hard
> drive on the PDA. I know postgresql will run in about 8MB of RAM so I
> think I should be ok on this front but I'm wondering about the data
> residing in FLASH.  Sure I'm prepared for a huge performance hit but
> aside from that what else should I expect?

No idea, but the idea of trying it sounds interesting.  It's probably
also worthwhile sending your email to the PostgreSQL "Hackers" mailing
list with a subject line of something like "PostgreSQL on ARM cpu?".

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


> Any thoughts you guys might have are appreciated!
>
> -Al
>
>
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