[Info-vax] Integrated Databases

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-29 14:51:26 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> On 5/29/2018 9:34 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>> PostgreSQL would be a phenom bundle for businesses looking for an
>>> enterprise class database.
>> 
>> Ayup.   https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/index.html
>> 
>> But that port has unfortunately been blocked by flaws in the OpenVMS 
>> SSIO implementation.
> 
> Which should be fixable by a rather simple enhancement to the DLM.  I 
> suggested such an enhancement to VSI, namely numeric range locking, and 
> hope that work on the port has pushed any consideration of the 
> suggestion until after the port is completed.  Or, perhaps, NIH is the 
> problem.  We'll see.

SSIO and the issues around atomicity are not particularly related to 
byte-range locking.   
http://de.openvms.org/TUD2012/opensource_and_unix_portability.pdf


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