Re: Postgresql on Solais 7 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

    go through the documentation on the postgresql.org
site. you will get a good amount of info there. anyhow
i have postgres working well on solaris 7.
   you will have to compile postgres source code and
install it on your sparc. you will need gcc compiler,
make, gdb or gdbm, gzip,bash which you can get in
pkgadd format from sunfreeware.com. download these and
install first.
   then get postgres source from postgresql.oeg and
follow the instructions in the INSTALL script. you
will also require to change your shared memory
parameters in /etc/system after installing postgres.
   in the mean time now you will be busy with these
first. then after finishing this you can jump on to
kernel parameters , ODBC etc....


all the best...

Regards
Rajesh,
tech solutions,
Intercept Consulting - INDIA

NOTE:- hope for the best and prepare for the worst


--- Fausto Guzzetti <Fausto.Guzzetti@irpi.pg.cnr.it>
wrote:
>
> Hello PostsgreSQL community,
>
> I just subscribed to the list to get information on
> PostsgreSQL on Sun Solaris 7.
>
> We would like to transfer our databases (currently
> on Sybase) into PostsgreSQL.
>
> We have currently our databases on a Sun Ultra Sparc
> 5 running Solaris 7. Are there
> binaries versions available for PostsgreSQL 7.X for
> Solaris 7?
> If not, what will I need to install the source code?
> Which compilers should I use?
> How difficult it is to install PostsgreSQL 7.X under
> Solaris 7? What level of expertise you
> really need (if you haven't  got it yet ... we are
> not very good at this business ...)
>
> I understand that PostsgreSQL 7.X supports ODBC.
> Where can we get them? How it works.
> Ideally, we would like to use the ODBC to do
> maintenance and update of our DBs from a
> windows machine. Most of the people that provides
> data to us use personal computers with
> windows and MS Access.
>
> Any idea, suggestion or experience on the best way
> to migrate from an external (in this
> case Sybase) DBS to PostsgreSQL 7.X? Since most (but
> not all) our databases are not very
> large (10.000 records in each table, 5-20 tables) we
> were thinking of connecting the old
> and new database via ODBC. Is this possible?
>
> When we will have our data into PostsgreSQL (if ever
> !?) we would like to query them
> through HTML pages. We are thinking of using PHP.
> Is this reasonable?. Is there anything peculiar we
> should know when installing PostsgreSQL
> for this use?
>
> Any help will really be appreciated.
>
> Regards, Fausto Guzzetti
>
>
> --
> Fausto Guzzetti
> CNR - IRPI Perugia
> via della Madonna Alta, 126
> 06128 PERUGIA (Italy)
> Tel. +39 075.505.4943
> Fax. +39 075.505.1325
> E.mail F.Guzzetti@irpi.pg.cnr.it
>
>
>


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