Re: hardware needed ?

Hi Eric,

We've already done a fair amount of testing of PostgreSQL on Sparc
hardware and Solaris, so it's probably not all that interesting... :-/

However, about an hour after you sent through your message, we received
this one from Myk Melez. He's asking us if there is a publically
available PostgreSQL server, and there isn't yet, so I'm wondering if
you'd be willing to setup a PostgreSQL server on your Sparccenter 2000
and let anyone anywhere connect to it, for a while at least.

We wouldn't want it to be extremely long term, as you never know what
un-cool things people could decide to store in there, but it might be
useful for a week or two after Myk's article becomes available for readers.

Would you be interested in this?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [GENERAL] publicly available PostGreSQL server?
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:33:10 -0800
From: Myk Melez <myk(at)mozilla(dot)org>
Organization: mozilla.org
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org

Is there a publicly available PostGreSQL server? I'm co-writing an
article for an online journal that includes information about
Mozilla's upcoming database support, and I'd like to point readers to
a PostGreSQL installation where they can try out an example app
without having to install their own server.

More info about database support in Mozilla:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81653

-myk

Eric Gentilini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't find any other list compatible with this post, I hope it is the right
> place.
> I got a sparccenter 2000 (sun4d) few weeks ago and I wondered if the
> postgresql team was interested in testing postgres on it. It has only 2 CPUs
> at this time but I may get more cpu and system boards in the next month.
> I thought it would have been interesting to test postgres on uch an
> architecture.
>
> Are you interested ? Would you be interested ?
>
> It runs solaris 8 and linux, but linux doesn't support smp on sun4d :/
> ... and since the kernel team doesn't work on sparc32 anymore, I thought it
> could be used by user-land software projects.
>
> The machine is located on an dsl lins 128/512kbps.
>
> seeya
>
> a+

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