Received: from landie.demon.co.uk (landie.demon.co.uk [158.152.140.246]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08287 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:51:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from davew@landie.demon.co.uk) Received: from ([192.168.113.247]) [192.168.113.247] by landie.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 12Qbck-0000DL-00; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:51:02 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:48:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on MacOS... Is it even a possibility? From: Dave White To: Jesse Scott , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200003020751.XAA03793@smtp.bmi.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Jesse Scott wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has thought about MacOS support. Is it even > possible? Is there some great impediment to porting or is it just that > there is not enough need to justify the effort? If you mean for client access then the libpq library should be a possibility, I've had a look at it and started the port but ran out of time. (I spent a day on it...) It doesn't, on the face of it, look like a HUGE job as all the comms calls go through a handful of routines. I intend to port it over sometime in the next few months as part of a large project I am working on. Of course, if anyone else has already done it... The server itself is another story... I doubt that it would be practical or desirable to run the server on Mac OS unless it is running on Mac OS X in which case porting it across should be straight forward. regards Dave White //////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dave White \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////