[Info-vax] Integrated Databases

[Dave Froble]

On 5/30/2018 7:39 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 5/29/18 9:50 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 5/29/2018 11:48 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>>> SSIO and the issues around atomicity are not particularly related to
>>> byte-range locking.
>>> http://de.openvms.org/TUD2012/opensource_and_unix_portability.pdf
>>
>> Ok, that was a bit interesting.  Apparently I didn't understand the
>> entire problem.
>
>> The first problem I see with the SSIO is that it appears to be
>> implemented in the CRTL.
>
> I guess you skipped the part that says it's implemented as a new API in
> the XFC with minor changes to RMS and the XQP. The CRTL is a consumer of
> the XFC API.
>
>

Yes, I did notice that.  But I also noticed constant references to the C 
RTL.