rme@spl26.spl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr) (10/25/90)
Is University Ingres available on Sun4s? What is the effort in getting it up and running? Thanks Richard Emberson
cheung@mathcs.emory.edu (Shun Yan Cheung) (10/25/90)
In article <1990Oct25.153937.20887@wdl1.wdl.fac.com> rme@spl26.spl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr) writes: > >Is University Ingres available on Sun4s? What is the effort in >getting it up and running? I am also looking for this. Please post or include me in your e-mail response. Thanks. -- Shun Yan Cheung | cheung@mathcs.emory.edu Internet Emory University | {rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!cheung UUCP Dept of Math and CS | cheung@emory.bitnet BITNET Atlanta, GA 30322 | (404) 727-3823
tilman@netcom.UUCP (Tilman Spokert) (10/26/90)
In article <1990Oct25.153937.20887@wdl1.wdl.fac.com> rme@spl26.spl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr) writes: > >Is University Ingres available on Sun4s? What is the effort in >getting it up and running? > I tried it a while back and ran into various problems. One had to do with memory allocation. Their is a lot of stuff in there which makes assumptions about alignments, and tries to use as few bytes as possible for structs etc. Well, Sun4s have some other ideas about alignments (the code does not use sizeof()!), and I gave up after a while trying to find the error, and just added 16 to every memory request in the need() routine. Then, you also have to take care of all the error functions, and convert them to varargs(3). Also, there is code at various places using bitmasks for file descriptors, stored in longs. However, NOFILE on a SUN4 (with SunOS4.1) is well above 32... So you either convert all that stuff to fd_set variables, or force NOFILE to 32. After doing all that, it seemed to work ok. However, I could not get the lock manager to work (it just freezes the machine). At that point I said, heck with it, I'm gonna play with it in single-user mode, and try to get "postgres"... really work ata kind of w -- Tilman Sporkert, apple!netcom!tilman or tilman@netcom.uucp - I don't need a Nintendo. I got a SparcStation... -