[Info-vax] Other than Oracle, What MySQL/DBMS options are there for OpenVms?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/22/19 2:31 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-03-22, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/21/19 11:04 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Irrespective of what I've seen listed in Wikipedia, PostgreSQL is *not*
>>> available for OpenVMS,
>> Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason for this?  Other
>> than just no one being interested enough to work on a port.
>>
> 
> IIRC, there are technical limitations with certain functionality not
> available on VMS. I think one of the issues was to do with SSIO.

Interesting.  I always thought the only real functionality missing
on VMS was fork().  Too bad, really, because Postgres has got to be
the best Open Source Database available.  If you look at the chart
on one of the wikis that compares them (except, I think the last
time I looked it did not include Rdb) Postgres is by far the best
and most feature loaded DB of any free or commercial.

bill