muller@phoenix.src.umd.edu (Christophe Muller) (03/01/90)
There have been so many messages requesting a free DBMS on Unix that I'd like to make a little summary of what is available. o One free DBMS is University INGRES. You can find it at : postgres.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.1) (file ingres89.tar.Z in /pub) University INGRES (v8.9) has been tested on Vax and Sun3 SunOs 3.x it appeared there were some problems using it under SunOs 4.0 (core dumped during the demo). I saw an announce of a patch, solving this problem on um.sun (Sun-Spots Digest, I don't know where it comes from) and it seems to work well now (it is not a warranty, ok? :-) Following is the message and the patch archive address. o Postgres is also available in the same directory (v1r2) Postgres seems to run only on SUN3 under SunOS 3.x according to the README file. o It doesn't seem to exist another free DBMS ! If you know something new, please post a follow-up on comp.databases. Thx. Cheers, Christophe. = Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from ...to choose from = ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 90 23:46:37 JST From: Motomichi Toyama <toyama@ae.keio.ac.jp> Subject: Re: University Ingres on a Sparc Station 1 X-Refs: Original: v9n16 X-Art: Usenet #2 >From: rod@brillig.umd.edu (Rodrigo Fontecilla) >Date: 29 Jan 90 18:52:02 GMT >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 16, message 14 of 18 > >I just ftp-ed University Ingres and succesfully compiled it on my >SparcStation 1 running SUNOS 4.0.3. However, when I tried to use the demo >relation it blows up. Most commands work but the most important: retrieve >does not. Below is the ingres session. Any suggestions? Recompile with >different options? I would appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks in >advance. I made the following patch to make ingres8.9 runnable on my SparcStation1. It hasn't been tested extensively, but seems work properly. Assuming the current directory is ~ingres/source. You can patch the sources via the command: patch -p0 < ingres.patch [[Ed's Note: placed in archives at Rice.]] FTP: Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) Directory: sun-source Filename : ingres.patch Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source ingres.patch