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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:57:02 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064492591.25702.2084.camel@camel>

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:11, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > > Don't be too hasty. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd welcome an
> > > > updated commercial native windows solution (When's SRA's port coming out
> > > > in 1.0?) , especially if they'd be willing to provide a "diff" of the
> > > > code back to the community. We might as well have someone get paid for
> > > > work we will probably have to do anyways...
> > > 
> > > I think a few things that Oleg needs to find out first is whether or not
> > > PeerDirect *will* feed it back to the community ... how much did they feed
> > > back of Jan's work?  Considering where win32 seems to be sitting, it
> > > doesn't seem like much ...
> > 
> > PeerDirect contributed the code, but neither they or Jan wanted to port
> > it up to current CVS, and that's were we/I got stuck.
> > 
> 
> So it would be a boon for them to pay someone to bring it up to date
> (assuming they would donate it back to the community).
> 
> 
> > SRA's Windows port is up to 7.3.4, and I think they just released
> > version 1.1, so that is going fine --- and I have the source code to
> > use in our native Win32 port, just not the threading stuff.
> 
> And if I've paid attention, the threading bits are what SRA used to get
> around the fork/exec issues?  
> 
> Incidentally I don't recall any announcements from SRA that they were
> past the beta development phase with their version, seems like that
> could have gotten some mention on the main postgresql site. 

Here is SRA's News page, translated into English:

	http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/body/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fosb.sra.co.jp&submit=%83E%83F%83u%83...

(Babelfish has problems, so I used Excite.)  You can see the products
they have.  I will post something to the PostgreSQL events list.

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