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Subject: Re: PostgreSql and VMS operating System
To: Vish Penmetsa <vish.penmetsa@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On 1/24/25 15:21, Vish Penmetsa wrote:
> I used to work in Ingres support and one of the things was teaching 
> Architecture of Ingres( seminar so just theory without handson ) .Coming 
> from a trainer( dong tech support training on site consulting etc) 
> people might have seen as shallow my discussions about advanced features 
> of VMS.
> 
> I will try to start working on this and probably note the features which 
> justify
> the port with some comparative findings) and see if that could get more 
> people interested.
> 

I think it would be more useful to establish first whether there are 
existing users of VMS that would like to see a port of Postgres. What 
you are proposing, trying to get people to adopt a new to them OS as way 
to get a port is quite a hurdle.


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Adrian Klaver
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