[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Paul Sture]

In article <kjiq16$pub$1 at dont-email.me>,
 David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
> > In article <515a085a$0$583$e4fe514c at dreader34.news.xs4all.nl>,
> >  MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> >> I doubt many non-commercial VMS users would 'need' or, let alone,
> >> /prefer/ to run Rdb or any RDBMS in general for their enjoyment
> >> at home.
> >>
> >> I personally certainly don't see much of a point, except perhaps
> >> (the less impressive, but adequate) MySQL or SQLite (that I've
> >> been working on for VMS), like in combination with a HTTP server.
> > 
> > I definitely saw the point of installing Rdb on my Hobbyist Alpha 
> > several years ago.  At the time MySQL didn't even support transactions, 
> > and the documentation made me despair.  In contrast the Rdb 
> > documentation was up to VMS standards :-)
> > 
> 
> Having seen it mentioned in the past, I thought I'd take a look at 
> POSTgreSQL.  Unfortunately, at their download page, VMS was not one of 
> the supported distributions.
> 
> Can or does this database work on VMS ??

Not sure.  There's this from 2010:

http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/OpenVMS-td1990249.html

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Paul Sture