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   1 <Chapter Id="ports">
   2 <Title>Ports</Title>
   3
   4 <Para>
   5 This manual  describes version 6.4 of <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>.
   6 The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> developer community has
   7 compiled  and  tested <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> on a
   8 number of platforms. Check
   9 <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/ports.htm">the web site</ulink>
  10 for the latest information.
  11
  12 <Sect1>
  13 <Title>Currently Supported Platforms</Title>
  14
  15 <para>
  16 At the time of publication, the following platforms have been tested:
  17
  18 <TABLE TOCENTRY="1">
  19 <TITLE>Supported Platforms</TITLE>
  20 <TGROUP COLS="4">
  21 <THEAD>
  22   <ROW>
  23     <ENTRY><Acronym>OS</Acronym></ENTRY>
  24     <ENTRY>Processor</ENTRY>
  25     <ENTRY>Version</ENTRY>
  26     <ENTRY>Reported</ENTRY>
  27     <ENTRY>Remarks</ENTRY>
  28   </ROW>
  29 </THEAD>
  30 <TBODY>
  31   <ROW>
  32     <ENTRY>AIX 4.2.1</ENTRY>
  33     <ENTRY>RS6000</ENTRY>
  34     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  35     <ENTRY>1998-10-27</ENTRY>
  36     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at">Andreas Zeugswetter</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  37   </ROW>
  38   <ROW>
  39     <ENTRY>BSDI</ENTRY>
  40     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
  41     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  42     <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
  43     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">Bruce Momjian</ULink></ENTRY>
  44   </ROW>
  45   <ROW>
  46     <ENTRY>FreeBSD 2.2.x-3.x</ENTRY>
  47     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
  48     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  49     <ENTRY>1998-10-26</ENTRY>
  50     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>,
  51             <ULink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  52   </ROW>
  53   <ROW>
  54     <ENTRY>DGUX 5.4R4.11</ENTRY>
  55     <ENTRY>m88k</ENTRY>
  56     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
  57     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
  58     <ENTRY>v6.4 probably OK. Needs new maintainer. (<ULink url="mailto:geek+@cmu.edu">Brian E Gallew</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  59   </ROW>
  60   <ROW>
  61     <ENTRY>Digital Unix 4.0</ENTRY>
  62     <ENTRY>Alpha</ENTRY>
  63     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  64     <ENTRY>1998-10-29</ENTRY>
  65     <ENTRY>Minor patchable problems
  66            (<ULink url="mailto:pjlobo@euitt.upm.es">Pedro J. Lobo</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  67   </ROW>
  68   <ROW>
  69     <ENTRY>HPUX</ENTRY>
  70     <ENTRY>PA-RISC</ENTRY>
  71     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  72     <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
  73     <ENTRY>Both 9.0.x and 10.20
  74            (<ULink url="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">Tom Lane</ULink>,
  75             <ULink url="mailto:stanb@awod.com">Stan Brown</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  76   </ROW>
  77   <ROW>
  78     <ENTRY>IRIX 6.x</ENTRY>
  79     <ENTRY>MIPS</ENTRY>
  80     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
  81     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
  82     <ENTRY>5.x is different
  83            (<ULink url="mailto:martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk">Andrew Martin</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  84   </ROW>
  85   <ROW>
  86     <ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
  87     <ENTRY>Alpha</ENTRY>
  88     <ENTRY>v6.3.2</ENTRY>
  89     <ENTRY>1998-04-16</ENTRY>
  90     <ENTRY>Mostly successful. Needs work for v6.4.
  91            (<ULink url="mailto:rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu">Ryan Kirkpatrick</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  92   </ROW>
  93   <ROW>
  94     <ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
  95     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
  96     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
  97     <ENTRY>1998-10-27</ENTRY>
  98     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">Thomas Lockhart</ULink>)</ENTRY>
  99   </ROW>
 100   <ROW>
 101     <ENTRY>linux 2.0.x/glibc2</ENTRY>
 102     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 103     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 104     <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
 105     <ENTRY>(<ulink url="mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk">Oliver Elphick</ulink>,
 106             <ulink url="mailto:taral@mail.utexas.edu">Taral</ulink>)</ENTRY>
 107   </ROW>
 108   <ROW>
 109     <ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
 110     <ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
 111     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 112     <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
 113     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 114   </ROW>
 115   <ROW>
 116     <ENTRY>linuxPPC 2.1.24</ENTRY>
 117     <ENTRY>PPC603e</ENTRY>
 118     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 119     <ENTRY>1998-10-26</ENTRY>
 120     <ENTRY>Powerbook 2400c(<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 121   </ROW>
 122   <ROW>
 123     <ENTRY>mklinux DR3</ENTRY>
 124     <ENTRY>PPC750</ENTRY>
 125     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 126     <ENTRY>1998-09-16</ENTRY>
 127     <ENTRY>PowerMac 7600 (<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 128   </ROW>
 129   <ROW>
 130     <ENTRY>NetBSD/i386 1.3.2</ENTRY>
 131     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 132     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 133     <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
 134     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">Brook Milligan</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 135   </ROW>
 136   <ROW>
 137     <ENTRY>NetBSD-current</ENTRY>
 138     <ENTRY>NS32532</ENTRY>
 139     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 140     <ENTRY>1998-10-27</ENTRY>
 141     <ENTRY>(small problems in date/time math (<ULink url="mailto:jonb@metronet.com">Jon Buller</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 142   </ROW>
 143   <ROW>
 144     <ENTRY>NetBSD/sparc 1.3H</ENTRY>
 145     <ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
 146     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 147     <ENTRY>1998-10-27</ENTRY>
 148     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:tih@hamartun.priv.no">Tom I Helbekkmo</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 149   </ROW>
 150   <ROW>
 151     <ENTRY>NetBSD 1.3</ENTRY>
 152     <ENTRY>VAX</ENTRY>
 153     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 154     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 155     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:tih@hamartun.priv.no">Tom I Helbekkmo</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 156   </ROW>
 157   <ROW>
 158     <ENTRY>SCO UnixWare 2.x</ENTRY>
 159     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 160     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 161     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 162     <ENTRY>aka UNIVEL
 163            (<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 164   </ROW>
 165   <ROW>
 166     <ENTRY>SCO UnixWare 7</ENTRY>
 167     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 168     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 169     <ENTRY>1998-10-04</ENTRY>
 170     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 171   </ROW>
 172   <ROW>
 173     <ENTRY>Solaris</ENTRY>
 174     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 175     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 176     <ENTRY>1998-10-28</ENTRY>
 177     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 178   </ROW>
 179   <ROW>
 180     <ENTRY>Solaris 2.6-2.7</ENTRY>
 181     <ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
 182     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 183     <ENTRY>1998-10-28</ENTRY>
 184     <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ULink>,
 185             <ULink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 186   </ROW>
 187   <ROW>
 188     <ENTRY>SunOS 4.1.4</ENTRY>
 189     <ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
 190     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 191     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 192     <ENTRY>patches submitted
 193            (<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 194   </ROW>
 195   <ROW>
 196     <ENTRY>SVR4</ENTRY>
 197     <ENTRY>MIPS</ENTRY>
 198     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 199     <ENTRY>1998-10-28</ENTRY>
 200     <ENTRY>no 64-bit int support
 201            (<ULink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 202   </ROW>
 203   <ROW>
 204     <ENTRY>SVR4 4.4</ENTRY>
 205     <ENTRY>m88k</ENTRY>
 206     <ENTRY>v6.2.1</ENTRY>
 207     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 208     <ENTRY>confirmed with patching
 209            (<ULink url="mailto:dlw@seavme.xroads.com">Doug Winterburn</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 210   </ROW>
 211   <ROW>
 212     <ENTRY>Windows NT</ENTRY>
 213     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 214     <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
 215     <ENTRY>1998-10-08</ENTRY>
 216     <ENTRY>Mostly working with the Cygwin library. No DLLs yet.
 217            (<ulink url="mailto:horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz">Horak Daniel</ulink>) </ENTRY>
 218   </ROW>
 219 </TBODY>
 220 </TGROUP>
 221 </TABLE>
 222
 223 <para>
 224 Platforms listed for v6.3.x should also work with v6.4, but we did not receive
 225 confirmation of such at the time this list was compiled.
 226
 227 <note>
 228 <para>
 229 For <productname>Windows NT</productname>,
 230 the server-side port of <productname>Postgres</productname> has recently been
 231 accomplished. Check
 232 <ulink url="http://www.askesis.nl/AskesisPostgresIndex.html">the Askesis Postgres Home Page</ulink>
 233 for up to date information. You may also want to
 234 look for possible patches on the
 235 <ulink url="http://postgresql.org">Postgres web site</ulink>.
 236 </note>
 237
 238 <Sect1>
 239 <Title>Unsupported Platforms</Title>
 240
 241 <Para>
 242 There are a few platforms which have been attempted and which have been
 243 reported to not work with the standard distribution.
 244 Others listed here do not provide sufficient library support for an attempt.
 245
 246 <TABLE TOCENTRY="1">
 247 <TITLE>Possibly Incompatible Platforms</TITLE>
 248 <TITLEABBREV>Incompatibles</TITLEABBREV>
 249 <TGROUP COLS="4">
 250 <THEAD>
 251   <ROW>
 252     <ENTRY><Acronym>OS</Acronym></ENTRY>
 253     <ENTRY>Processor</ENTRY>
 254     <ENTRY>Version</ENTRY>
 255     <ENTRY>Reported</ENTRY>
 256     <ENTRY>Remarks</ENTRY>
 257   </ROW>
 258 </THEAD>
 259 <TBODY>
 260   <ROW>
 261     <ENTRY>MacOS</ENTRY>
 262     <ENTRY>all</ENTRY>
 263     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 264     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 265     <ENTRY>not library compatible; use ODBC/JDBC</ENTRY>
 266   </ROW>
 267   <ROW>
 268     <ENTRY>NetBSD</ENTRY>
 269     <ENTRY>arm32</ENTRY>
 270     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 271     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 272     <ENTRY>not yet working (<ULink url="mailto:dmill@globalnet.co.uk">Dave Millen</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 273   </ROW>
 274   <ROW>
 275     <ENTRY>NetBSD</ENTRY>
 276     <ENTRY>m68k</ENTRY>
 277     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 278     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 279     <ENTRY>Amiga, HP300, Mac; not yet working (<ULink url="mailto:hotz@jpl.nasa.gov">Henry Hotz</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 280   </ROW>
 281   <ROW>
 282     <ENTRY>NextStep</ENTRY>
 283     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 284     <ENTRY>v6.x</ENTRY>
 285     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 286     <ENTRY>client-only support; v1.0.9 worked with patches (<ULink url="mailto:dave@turbocat.de">David Wetzel</ULink>)</ENTRY>
 287   </ROW>
 288   <ROW>
 289     <ENTRY>Ultrix</ENTRY>
 290     <ENTRY>MIPS,VAX?</ENTRY>
 291     <ENTRY>v6.x</ENTRY>
 292     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 293     <ENTRY>no recent reports; obsolete?</ENTRY>
 294   </ROW>
 295   <ROW>
 296     <ENTRY>Windows</ENTRY>
 297     <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
 298     <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
 299     <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
 300     <ENTRY>not library compatible; client side maybe; use ODBC/JDBC</ENTRY>
 301   </ROW>
 302 </TBODY>
 303 </TGROUP>
 304 </TABLE>
 305
 306 <Para>
 307 Note that Windows ports of the frontend are apparently possible
 308 using third-party Posix porting tools and libraries.
 309 </Para>
 310 </Sect1>
 311
 312 </Chapter>