[Info-vax] Status of the PostgreSQL port?

[John Reagan]

On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 2:26:13 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> 
> I very much do understand what you are writing about here, too.   All 
> of the OpenVMS open-source I've worked on most recently -- around 100KB 
> of new source code, plus some source bits ported from BSD to work 
> around the lack of common C calls -- is itself a work-around for a lack 
> of lowercase aliases in some shareable image symbol vectors.    For a 
> lack of lower case alias entries in a shareable image options file 
> somewhere.   That's a ~100KB work-around, all to make it easier for 
> other open-source projects to be ported to OpenVMS.   All due to a lack 
> of options file alias entries.
> 

I absolutely would support changes to the linker to help it resolve lowercase aliases.  I'd even consider some tool (perhaps the linker itself) to modify an existing symbol vector.

As for missing routines, headers, constants, etc. (both from C99 and C11 standards as well as various POSIX releases), I'm collecting a list.  People can send their lists to me (Hoff has sent me several over the past months).

I'm collecting my own list from porting LLVM (my list is my 'first include' that I have to provide the things I couldn't find in the current RTL interface).