Re: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?
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Msg-id 18751.1270141362@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?  (Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?  (Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>)
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Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> Just noticed on the wikipedia page under rdbms, it lists postgresql as available on AmigaOS.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems

> Is this just an error, as I see edb advanced server is also listed as available, or was there some working code at
somepoint in time? 

I think it's probably bogus.  There's some mention in very old versions
of the ports list of being able to run on top of NetBSD on Amiga
hardware.  But unless somebody had code to duplicate the Unix syscall set
on AmigaOS, there'd have been no way to make PG run on that.

            regards, tom lane

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