- <chapter id="ports">
- <title>Ports</title>
- <para>
- This manual describes version 6.5 of <productname>Postgres</productname>.
- The <productname>Postgres</productname> developer community has
- compiled and tested <productname>Postgres</productname> on a
- number of platforms. Check
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/ports.htm">the web site</ulink>
- for the latest information.
- </para>
- <sect1>
- <title>Currently Supported Platforms</title>
- <para>
- At the time of publication, the following platforms have been tested:
- <table tocentry="1">
- <title>Supported Platforms</title>
- <tgroup cols="4">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry><acronym>OS</acronym></entry>
- <entry>Processor</entry>
- <entry>Version</entry>
- <entry>Reported</entry>
- <entry>Remarks</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>AIX 4.3.2</entry>
- <entry>RS6000</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-26</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at">Andreas Zeugswetter</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>BSDI</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">Bruce Momjian</ulink></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>FreeBSD 2.2.x-4.0</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>,
- <ulink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>DGUX 5.4R4.11</entry>
- <entry>m88k</entry>
- <entry>v6.3</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>v6.4 probably OK. Needs new maintainer.
- (<ulink url="mailto:geek+@cmu.edu">Brian E Gallew</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Digital Unix 4.0</entry>
- <entry>Alpha</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-29</entry>
- <entry>Minor patchable problems
- (<ulink url="mailto:pjlobo@euitt.upm.es">Pedro J. Lobo</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>HPUX</entry>
- <entry>PA-RISC</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-25</entry>
- <entry>Both 9.0x and 10.20
- (<ulink url="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">Tom Lane</ulink>,
- <ulink url="mailto:stanb@awod.com">Stan Brown</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>IRIX 6.5</entry>
- <entry>MIPS</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-12-29</entry>
- <entry>IRIX 5.x is different
- (<ulink url="mdalphin@amgen.com">Mark Dalphin</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
- <entry>Alpha</entry>
- <entry>v6.3.2</entry>
- <entry>1998-04-16</entry>
- <entry>Mostly successful. Needs work for v6.4.
- (<ulink url="mailto:rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu">Ryan Kirkpatrick</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linux 2.0.x/libc5</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-27</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">Thomas Lockhart</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linux 2.0.x/glibc2</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-24</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">Thomas Lockhart</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
- <entry>MIPS</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-12-16</entry>
- <entry>Cobalt Qube
- (<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
- <entry>Sparc</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>linuxPPC 2.1.24</entry>
- <entry>PPC603e</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-26</entry>
- <entry>Powerbook 2400c
- (<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>mklinux DR3</entry>
- <entry>PPC750</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-09-16</entry>
- <entry>PowerMac 7600
- (<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD</entry>
- <entry>arm32</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-04-14</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:a.mcmurry1@physics.oxford.ac.uk">Andrew McMurry</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD/i386 1.3.2</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">Brook Milligan</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD</entry>
- <entry>m68k</entry>
- <entry>v6.4.2</entry>
- <entry>1998-12-28</entry>
- <entry>Mac SE/30
- (Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima,
- <ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD-current</entry>
- <entry>NS32532</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-27</entry>
- <entry>small problems in date/time math
- (<ulink url="mailto:jonb@metronet.com">Jon Buller</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD/sparc 1.3H</entry>
- <entry>Sparc</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-27</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:tih@hamartun.priv.no">Tom I Helbekkmo</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NetBSD 1.3</entry>
- <entry>VAX</entry>
- <entry>v6.3</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:tih@hamartun.priv.no">Tom I Helbekkmo</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SCO OpenServer 5</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:andrew@compclass.com">Andrew Merrill</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SCO UnixWare 7</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-25</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:andrew@compclass.com">Andrew Merrill</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Solaris</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-28</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Solaris 2.6-2.7</entry>
- <entry>Sparc</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-28</entry>
- <entry>(<ulink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ulink>,
- <ulink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SunOS 4.1.4</entry>
- <entry>Sparc</entry>
- <entry>v6.3</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>Patches submitted
- (<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SVR4</entry>
- <entry>MIPS</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1998-10-28</entry>
- <entry>No 64-bit int compiler support
- (<ulink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Windows</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.4</entry>
- <entry>1999-01-06</entry>
- <entry>Client-side libraries or ODBC/JDBC. No server yet.
- (<ulink url="mha@sollentuna.net">Magnus Hagander</ulink></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Windows NT</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.5</entry>
- <entry>1999-05-26</entry>
- <entry>Working with the Cygwin library.
- (<ulink url="mailto:Dan.Horak@email.cz">Daniel Horak</ulink>) </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- </para>
- <para>
- Platforms listed for v6.3.x and v6.4.x should also work with v6.5,
- but we did not receive explicit confirmation of such at the time this
- list was compiled.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- For <productname>Windows NT</productname>,
- the server-side port of <productname>Postgres</productname> has recently been
- accomplished. The Cygnus library is required to compile it.
- </para>
- </note>
- </sect1>
- <sect1>
- <title>Unsupported Platforms</title>
- <para>
- There are a few platforms which have been attempted and which have been
- reported to not work with the standard distribution.
- Others listed here do not provide sufficient library support for an attempt.
- <table tocentry="1">
- <title>Possibly Incompatible Platforms</title>
- <titleabbrev>Incompatibles</titleabbrev>
- <tgroup cols="4">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry><acronym>OS</acronym></entry>
- <entry>Processor</entry>
- <entry>Version</entry>
- <entry>Reported</entry>
- <entry>Remarks</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>MacOS</entry>
- <entry>all</entry>
- <entry>v6.3</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>Not library compatible; use ODBC/JDBC</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>NextStep</entry>
- <entry>x86</entry>
- <entry>v6.x</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>Client-only support; v1.0.9 worked with patches (<ulink
- url="mailto:dave@turbocat.de">David Wetzel</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>SVR4 4.4</entry>
- <entry>m88k</entry>
- <entry>v6.2.1</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>Confirmed with patching; v6.4.x will need TAS spinlock code
- (<ulink url="mailto:dlw@seavme.xroads.com">Doug Winterburn</ulink>)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Ultrix</entry>
- <entry>MIPS,VAX?</entry>
- <entry>v6.x</entry>
- <entry>1998-03-01</entry>
- <entry>No recent reports; obsolete?</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- </para>
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
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