Has anyone succeeded in installing Postgres 8.2.3 or higher on either
SCO 5 or SCO 6?

Think it is inherently impossible, or close thereto?

Thanks

Ed wrote:

> Has anyone succeeded in installing Postgres 8.2.3 or higher on either
> SCO 5 or SCO 6?


While I see no reason why you counldn't get OSR6 to work, the question is really
why?

From experience your life will be happier if you dedicate database servers to
serving and serving alone.

PostgreSQL is a whole lot happier on a UFS based file system than anything else
at the moment. You litterally with a broadband connection could have a running
freeBSD server with postgreSQL installed and running in 15-20 minutes.

Or if top speed isn't the issue, with an Ubunutu CD you could have it up and
running without the internet in about the same time.

For our other customers, we have Postgres running on Linux or MS
servers. At this particular site, SCO is what they know, love, and
can support...and the OS for which the recently purchased an upgrade.
We aren't their IT people...we provide their application software, and
they have been running our core system on SCO for many years.

Now, we are adding an application that will run as a client on their
workstations, and will access a Postgres database. We would have been
very pleased if they had migrated to Linux, rather than upgrading
their SCO, and encouraged them to go for a test drive, but their IT
support is in-house, and they decided to stay with SCO.

Postgres currently is running on their SCO server, and we have
connected to it, but our application uses at least one stored
procedure that runs beautifully in Postgresl 8.2.X, but not in 8.1 or
earlier. Haven't quite pinned down the specific problem, but we can
upgrade all our other customers to 8.2 without much trouble. The one
SCO platform is the challenge.

For an MS server, I could download and install the latest stable
Postgres release, and for the Linux distributions we usually work
with- Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu, it's a matter of installing the
correct rpm (there is an 8.2.x for Red Hat 5) or doing an apt-get
after adding the "unstable" repositories. How would we go about
getting and installing the dependencies for SCO?

Thanks,

Ed




On Sep 19, 3:59 pm, Walter Vaughan <wvaug...@steelerubber.com> wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> > Has anyone succeeded in installingPostgres8.2.3 or higher on either
> >SCO5 orSCO6?
>
> While I see no reason why you counldn't get OSR6 to work, the question is really
> why?
>
> From experience your life will be happier if you dedicate database servers to
> serving and serving alone.
>
> PostgreSQL is a whole lot happier on a UFS based file system than anything else
> at the moment. You litterally with a broadband connection could have a running
> freeBSD server with postgreSQL installed and running in 15-20 minutes.
>
> Or if top speed isn't the issue, with an Ubunutu CD you could have it up and
> running without the internet in about the same time.