Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL general discussions list - 2010 Thread:Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL general discussions list - 2010 Thread:Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL general discussions list - 2010 Thread:Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?  (Rakesh Kumar <rakeshkumar464@outlook.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Rakesh Kumar
<rakeshkumar464@outlook.com> wrote:
>>More to the point, whatever "MorphOS" is, it isn't AmigaOS.  It was pretty
>>clearly stated in the original thread that AmigaOS had no support for
>>fork(), without which there was no chance of running Postgres.
>
> Just curious, if PG is completely dependent on fork(), how was it ported to Windows
> which also does not support fork directly.

There is a special treatment here with EXEC_BACKEND, so you can get PG
to work even if fork() is not in the area.
--
Michael


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