Hello together i've seen a lot of discussion about a native win32/OS2/BEOS port of PostgreSQL.
During the last months i've ported PostgreSQL over to Novell NetWare and i've changed the code that I use pthreads instead of fork() now. I had a lot of work with the variables and cleanup but mayor parts are done. I would appreciate if we could combine this work. My plan was to finish this port, discuss the port with other people and offer all the work to the PostgreSQL source tree, but now i'm jumping in here because of all the discussions. What i've done in detail: - i've defined #USE_PTHREADS in pg_config.h to differentiate between the forked and the threaded backend. - I've added several parts in postmaster.c so all functions are based on pthreads now. - I've changed the signal handling because signals are process based - I've changed code in ipc.c to have a clean shutdown of threads - I've written some functions to switch the global variables. The globals are controled with POSIX semaphores. - I've written a new implementation of shared memory and semaphores- With pthreads I don't need real shared memory any more and i'm using POSIX semaphores now - Several minor changes. There is still some more work to do like fixing memory leaks or handling bad situations, but in general it's functional on NetWare. BTW: Is it possible to add some lines on the PostgreSQL webpage that there is a first beta of PostgreSQL for NetWare available and to offer a binary download for the NetWare version? Ulrich Neumann ---------------------------------- This e-mail is virus scanned Diese e-mail ist virusgeprueft ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
