[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-01-24, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/24/23 12:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> |What position does PostgreSQL have on the list of opensource software?
>> |
>> |We have no plans to port PostgreSQL to OpenVMS.
>
> That is bizarre.  It's already _been_ ported for Integrity and has been
> available since 10 December 2021 as a download from the VSI portal.
> It's hard to imagine what an x86 build would require that's different
> from an IA64 build.  I wonder if Oracle told them no Rdb unless they
> quash the port of PostgreSQL to OpenVMS x86.
>

It does seem strange in light of previous comments and work in this area.
I wonder if there is some misunderstanding going on.

_If_ you are correct however, I wonder if there's anything else VSI have
had to agree not to port to x86-64 in order to get Rdb on x86-64 VMS ?

BTW, did VSI provide the source code changes to get PostgreSQL running
on Itanium ?

If so, I wonder if a build attempt on x86-64 would work anyway.

Simon.

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