[Info-vax] Status of the PostgreSQL port?

[BillPedersen]

On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 10:24:35 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-29 02:47:11 +0000, BillPedersen said:
> 
> > ...I look forward to continuing to work with them and VSI Engineering 
> > as we get this project moving again.
> 
> Or maybe looking at the lack of C11, at what SSIO and the jackets and 
> the other limitations of the current CRTL are intended to address -- and 
> how could I ever forget my old friend, the spectacularly modular and 
> infinitely supportable and maintainable use of logical names as an RTL 
> feature control mechanism? -- and just nuke it all from orbit.   Deploy 
> a new and modern C RTL VSIC$CRTL, either the existing C bits rethought 
> and rewritten and re-architected, or possibly based on the musl C 
> library, and schedule the existing DECC$CRTL for deprecation.
> 
> Some of the biggest decisions around within a port involve the image 
> activator and its associated data structures and particularly around 
> its extensibility and integration with the "higher level" software, BTW 
> -- make it work like what went before or otherwise get that design 
> wrong, and the platform greatly suffers.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

To make any progress we need to move forward with the tools with have now.  That has become more and more apparent.

Yes, we need improved resources.  That will help in the future.  But as of now we have developed various tools and workarounds that for the most part work.

It would be nice to be able to "fix" the CRTL or even experiment with new features but that seems like a long way down the road right now.

Bill.