<Title>Currently Supported Platforms</Title>
<Para>
- <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> is available free of charge. This manual
- describes version 6.4 of <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>. The authors have
- compiled and tested <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> on the following
- platforms:
+This manual describes version 6.4 of <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>.
+The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> developer community has
+compiled and tested <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> on the following
+platforms:
<TABLE TOCENTRY="1">
<TITLE>Supported Platforms</TITLE>
<ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>4.1.4.0,4.2 (<ULink url="mailto:darrenk@insightdist.com">Darren King</ULink>),
-4.1.5 (<ULink url="mailto:Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at">Andreas Zeugswetter</ULink>);
-3.2.5 confirmed on v6.2.1 (<ULink url="mailto:danaf@ans.net">Frank Dana</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ 4.1.5 (<ULink url="mailto:Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at">Andreas Zeugswetter</ULink>);
+ 3.2.5 confirmed on v6.2.1 (<ULink url="mailto:danaf@ans.net">Frank Dana</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
- <ENTRY>BSDi</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>BSDI</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">Bruce Momjian</ULink></ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>,
-<ULink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ULink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
- <ENTRY>NetBSD 1.3</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>NetBSD 1.3.2</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">Brook Milligan</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:geek+@cmu.edu">Brian E Gallew</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
- <ENTRY>HPUX 10.20</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>HPUX</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>PA-RISC</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>9.0.x confirmed on v6.2.1 (<ULink url="mailto:stanb@awod.com">Stan Brown</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>Both 9.0.x and 10.20
+ (<ULink url="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">Tom Lane</ULink>,
+ <ULink url="mailto:stanb@awod.com">Stan Brown</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>IRIX 6.x</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>MIPS</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>5.x is different (<ULink url="mailto:martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk">Andrew Martin</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>5.x is different
+ (<ULink url="mailto:martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk">Andrew Martin</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>Digital 4.0</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>Alpha</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.3.2</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-04-16</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>reported working for DUnix/v3.2g (<ULink url="mailto:pjlobo@euitt.upm.es">Pedro J. Lobo</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>reported working for DUnix/v3.2g
+ (<ULink url="mailto:pjlobo@euitt.upm.es">Pedro J. Lobo</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>Alpha</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.3.2</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-04-16</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>mostly successful (<ULink url="mailto:rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu">Ryan Kirkpatrick</ULink>,
-<ULink url="mailto:jsturm@zenacomp.com"> Jeff Sturm </ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>mostly successful
+ (<ULink url="mailto:rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu">Ryan Kirkpatrick</ULink>,
+ <ULink url="mailto:jsturm@zenacomp.com"> Jeff Sturm </ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-10-09</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">Thomas Lockhart</ULink>,
-<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ </ROW>
+ <ROW>
+ <ENTRY>linux 2.0.x/glibc2</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>(<ulink url="mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk">Oliver Elphick</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="mailto:taral@mail.utexas.edu">Taral</ulink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>linux 2.0.x</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>partial success (<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>partial success
+ (<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>Solaris</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>Solaris 2.5.1-2.6</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ULink>,
-<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>1998-10-25</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>(<ULink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>SunOS 4.1.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>Sparc</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.3</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>patches submitted (<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>patches submitted
+ (<ULink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>SVR4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>MIPS</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-10-08</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>no 64-bit int support (<ULink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>no 64-bit int support
+ (<ULink url="mailto:ridderbusch.pad@sni.de">Frank Ridderbusch</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>SVR4 4.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>m88k</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.2.1</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-03-01</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>confirmed with patching (<ULink url="mailto:dlw@seavme.xroads.com">Doug Winterburn</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>confirmed with patching
+ (<ULink url="mailto:dlw@seavme.xroads.com">Doug Winterburn</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>Unixware</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-10-04</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>aka UNIVEL (<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>aka UNIVEL
+ (<ULink url="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Billy G. Allie</ULink>)</ENTRY>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENTRY>Windows NT</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>x86</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>v6.4</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>1998-10-08</ENTRY>
- <ENTRY>Mostly working with the Cygwin library. No DLLs yet. <ulink url="mailto:horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz">Horak Daniel</ulink> </ENTRY>
+ <ENTRY>Mostly working with the Cygwin library. No DLLs yet.
+ (<ulink url="mailto:horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz">Horak Daniel</ulink>) </ENTRY>
</ROW>
</TBODY>
</TGROUP>
</TABLE>
+<para>
+Platforms listed for v6.3.x should also work with v6.4, but we did not receive
+confirmation of such at the time this list was compiled.
+
<note>
<para>
-For <productname>Windows NT</productname>, look for patches on the
+For <productname>Windows NT</productname>,
+the server-side port of <productname>Postgres</productname> has recently been
+accomplished. Check
+<ulink url="http://www.askesis.nl/AskesisPostgresIndex.html">the Askesis Postgres Home Page</ulink>
+for up to date information. You may also want to
+look for possible patches on the
<ulink url="http://postgresql.org">Postgres web site</ulink>.
</note>