[Info-vax] Status of the PostgreSQL port?

[John Reagan]

On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 2:36:28 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-29 17:22:04 +0000, BillPedersen said:
> 
> > And setting the DECC$ logicals in LIB$INITIALIZE is exactly what we do 
> > to control the behavior based upon where and how the ported routines 
> > are invoked - if necessary.
> 
> Which is not the most maintainable user interface for programming and 
> for run-time, particularly as feature knobs are added.  

OpenVMS is in a position to make itself look like Unix without making itself look like Unix.  Softlinks, mount points, etc. are sometimes difficult to squeeze into the traditional OpenVMS device/logical-name paradigm.  Different programs want different things.  

Open Source code doesn't come with OpenVMS-isms, but often finds itself at odds with filename syntax differences.

The CRTL has tried to be upward compatible at the expense of complexity.  Can I get rid of stuff for x86?  Anybody still using the smaller stat for example?