[Info-vax] Status of the PostgreSQL port?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/29/2015 10:24 AM, 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.

If VSI was asking me (which they will not) then I would recommend:
- getting latest Java running on VMS
- push some of all the Java software out there

I believe that both initial an ongoing cost would be relative
low compared to how much you would get out of it.

Arne